MOTIONLESS
ADJECTIVES
► ASLEEP of inanimate things: motionless, inactive → 1899 Amer. dial.
► IMMOTIONED motionless → 1821
► IMMOVED unmoved, motionless; unaltered → 1600 poetic usage, obs.
► LIKE A KNOT ON A LOG immovable, motionless, perfectly still → 1873 Amer. dial.
► QUIESCENT motionless, inactive, at rest → 1646
VERBS
► DARE to lie motionless (generally with the sense of fear), to lie appalled; to crouch → c1220 obs.
► FREEZE to stay or become motionless → 1848 Amer. sl.
► LAY CHILLY to lie low; to wait patiently; to remain motionless → 1978 US sl.
► LIE DOGGO to remain hidden or motionless so as not to be noticed → 1893 sl.
► SIT CHILLY to lie low; to wait patiently; to remain motionless → 1988 US sl.
► STAY DOGGO to remain hidden or motionless so as not to be noticed → 1893 sl.
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