dormant

uinuva, horroksessa oleva

nukkuva

toimimaton inactive Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.

The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.

This volcano is dormant but not extinct.

It is by lying dormant a long time, or being (..) very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.

a lion dormant