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单词 moribund
释义
moribund
adjective
formaldisapproving
uk
/ˈmɒr.ɪ.bʌnd/us
/ˈmɔːr.ɪ.bʌnd/
(especiallyof anorganizationorbusiness) notactiveorsuccessful:
（尤指组织或公司）无生气的，停滞不前的，失败的
How can thedepartmentberevivedfromitspresentmoribundstate?怎样使该部门从目前的停滞状态中恢复生气？
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not active or working
  • inactiveIf you haven’t voted in the last two elections, we consider you inactive and remove you from the electoral roll.
  • dormantThe plants will stay dormant throughout the winter.
  • latentMany people in the region have latent tuberculosis.
  • quiescentThe extremist group was politically quiescent but very socially active.
  • moribundThe family business is now moribund.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Passive and not working
  • anywhere
  • breather
  • breathing space
  • bum
  • bum around
  • dormancy
  • idle
  • laze
  • leavesomeonebeidiom
  • lie around
  • navel
  • non-physical
  • non-practising
  • recharge
  • siesta
  • sit onyourhandsidiom
  • sit round
  • slob
  • slob around (something)
  • slop around (something)
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(Definition ofmoribundfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

moribund| Business English

moribund
adjective
ECONOMICSformal
uk
/ˈmɒrɪbʌnd/us
used todescribeabusiness,market, etc. that is notactiveorsuccessful:
Thefiguresshow a moribundremortgagemarket.
(Definition ofmoribundfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Potential food sources thus include both living andmoribundmaterial that vary in abundance and distribution within the forest.
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This serves as an introduction to which languages are safe, which are endangered, and which aremoribund.
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It is also highly likely that other predators, such as birds, removemoribundor dead slugs rapidly.
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Because the extent of the centre does not increase significantly, it is seen asmoribund.
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But given the prevailing leftist ideology, the conference was rathermoribund.
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All deaths occurred in patients who weremoribundwith extreme cyanosis at the time of presentation.
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The appearance of dead andmoribundparasite larvae in non-permissive, but not in permissive, hosts suggests the presence of host immune reactions.
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Some life would be injected into themoribundgrammar checking market.
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Physicians may create euphoria with opiates in a patient who is seriously ill but notmoribund.
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The third patient wasmoribundprior to the procedure and developed necrotizing enterocolitis and renal failure after the procedure, dying 10 days later.
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Frequent presence of wounds onmoribundlarvae was observed, indicating physical conflict among first instar larvae.
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During the reign of behaviorism, the study of the higher mental processes wasmoribundand in serious need of revitalization.
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There are in addition ' rules ' per se, which are learned and which typically express the non-productive synchronic residue ofmoribundprocesses.
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These fish were considered to bemoribundand the experiment was stopped for animal welfare reasons.
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The progress of history rendered older models of economic organizationmoribund.
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