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active engaging in activity rather than relaxing, sleeping, or being dormant. [1/7 definitions]
asleep dormant. [1/7 definitions]
cyst the resistant wall encapsulating the dormant form of many microscopic organisms, or a dormant organism possessing such a resistant wall. [1/3 definitions]
estivate to spend the summer in a dormant or inactive state. (Cf. hibernate.) [1/2 definitions]
hibernate to remain dormant over the winter in a den or burrow so as to conserve energy, as bears and other animals. [1/2 definitions]
Nevado del Ruiz a Colombian volcano that erupted in 1985 after having been dormant for 150 years, causing 23,000 deaths in what was the world's second most deadly volcanic eruption of the twentieth century.
quiescent in a state of inaction or rest; dormant.
torpid dormant or inactive, as in hibernation. [1/2 definitions]
torpor a state of suspended movement or feeling, as in a dormant animal. [1/2 definitions]
vernalize to stimulate the growth of (a plant) by chilling the seed or bulb in order to shorten the dormant stage.