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- noun The property of being
motionless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of no motion or movement
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Examples
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I like to use a box call and some loud yelping for distance, then a mouth diaphragm call for hands-free motionlessness when they get closer.
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I like to use a box call and some loud yelping for distance, then a mouth diaphragm call for hands-free motionlessness when they get closer.
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In doing so, he hoped to break the monotony, the blurring of night and day, the feeling of motionlessness he had in being confined to the same bed and the same room.
Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010
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I must confess that I found the unnatural quiet and apparent motionlessness palpably disturbing, almost to the point of vertigo; it was as though the whole planet had stopped moving, and now waited in hushed anticipation for some great and climactic event.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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I must confess that I found the unnatural quiet and apparent motionlessness palpably disturbing, almost to the point of vertigo; it was as though the whole planet had stopped moving, and now waited in hushed anticipation for some great and climactic event.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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There are the synaptic flashes which launch the patients' awakenings and never far behind the dissolutions into motionlessness and silence.
Rambert Dance Company – review Luke Jennings 2010
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She seemed to fight him with her cramped motionlessness.
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The primary neocon deception was to lull us into a state of motionlessness through fear and intimidation, and they have succeeded in this objective splendidly.
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The silence and motionlessness of the whole added to its awfulness.
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The water is always moving slightly through the half-full tunnels but in those deep places there is a sense of stillness, motionlessness ... a feeling that there is something waiting in the dark liquid.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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