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come across collapse: communicate the intended meaning or impression; "He came across very clearly"; be perceived in a certain way; make a certain impression

stationary collapse: not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery"; standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running"

stick out collapse: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

inactive collapse: not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"; not engaged in full-time work; "inactive reserve"; "an inactive member of the department"; lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery"; not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly; not exerting influence or change; not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"; not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert; "desired amounts of inactive chlorine"

dormancy collapse: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"

stand out collapse: be stubborn in resolution or resistance; steer away from shore, of ships

neuter collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine); of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"; having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

dodge collapse: a quick evasive movement; a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher's blow"; move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

stasis collapse: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces; an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped

pacifism collapse: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration; the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable

isolationism collapse: a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations

vegetation collapse: inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"; an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart); all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"; the process of growth in plants

procrastination collapse: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

quietism collapse: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

quiescent collapse: causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"; being quiet or still or inactive; not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"; marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"

dormant collapse: inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"; of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano"; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

passive resistance collapse: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

inertia collapse: (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

action collapse: something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"; the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"; an act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves"; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action"; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action"; the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"; the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"; institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"

meditation collapse: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"; (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)

nonresistance collapse: group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence

inert collapse: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"; unable to move or resist motion; having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"

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