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Meanings of become passive in English

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Usage of become passive in English
1
Since that row of lights had appeared in the distance she had become passive.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
2
You become passive creatively, and it hardens in the mind.
The Guardian
3
When we become too set-oriented we can become passive.
Reuters
4
The mind will gradually become passive and at rest, and the mental image will manifest clearly.
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
5
Our nature may become habituated to good or evil; we become passive in proportion to the habit.
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
6
She had become passive and silent.
Time After Time
7
When Zoran Tosic, once of United, unloaded at Romero's goal it was a warning that United had become passive.
The Guardian
8
Since the plan of escape had been projected he had lost all will of his own and become passive and inert.
The Christian: A Story
9
You will not, from this, conclude that I have become passive, or disposed to submit tamely to the machinations of a banditti.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
10
If Hester lives, she will outgrow her passionate nature, or at least she will grow up to it and become passive, contemplative.
Red Pottage
11
Things happened to him so much of late, his own efforts had counted for so little, that he had become passive and planless.
The War in the Air
12
And women and girls seem to internalize these harmful messages in such a subliminal way that we tend to become passive and apathetic.
Feminist dot com
13
When lobotomies were commonplace, its victims became passive and easy to handle.
Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
14
He struggled, turned in her arms, and then became passive, breathing loudly.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
15
No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges-absorbing but never creating.
Childhood's End
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For the time being the sense of antagonism became passive.
Where the Trail Divides
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