The phrase "fall dormant" is both correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process in which something goes from being active or alive to being inactive, quiet, or idle. For example, you could say, "Once winter arrived, the insect population began to fall dormant."
the debate didn't so much end as fall dormant.
The women get anxious about letting the site, which gets roughly 900,000 page views per month, fall dormant.
Based on their level of fall/winter growth, alfalfa cultivars can be separated into four fall dormancy groups: fall dormant, semi-fall dormant, non-fall dormant and highly non-fall dormant (Barnes et al. 1988).
Both these gene transcripts had a greater abundance relative to the fully watered controls in the fall dormant groups compared with the non-fall dormant or highly non-fall dormant groups after 14 days of treatment.
The abundance of sucrose synthase gene transcripts (relative to the fully watered controls) was lower in the fall dormant cultivars compared with the non-fall dormant and highly non-fall dormant cultivars after 35 days of treatment.
Consequently, FFI DT1, Q31, Kaituna and A5225 were grouped together as the fall dormant group, SARDI 7 as the non-fall dormant group, and Sequel and SARDI 10 as the highly non-fall dormant group.
This paper reports on a study undertaken to investigate the adaptation of seven alfalfa cultivars/lines representing a fall dormancy score from 3 (dormant) to 10 (highly non-fall dormant) to a water deficit and the expression profile of select genes.
For several years, American counterterrorism experts believed Iran's terrorist apparatus had fallen dormant.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution installed Ayatollah Khomeini as Iran's leader, many scientists left the country and the program fell dormant.
When the modern founder, James II of England, was deposed in 1688, the modern version fell dormant, but it was revived once more by Queen Anne in 1703.
Birther bills have foundered or fallen dormant in at least five states and are still being debated in more than a half-dozen others.
