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Breathing in irregularly when asleep in winter
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hibernating
Word definitions for hibernating in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn: dormant , hibernating(a) , torpid ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of hibernate English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hibernating \hibernating\ adj. in a state of suspended animation; -- of animals that sleep most of the winter. [prenominal] Syn: dormant, torpid.
Usage examples of hibernating.
Its sensor clusters and thermo-dump panels emerged from the hull with the timidity of a hibernating creature venturing out into a spring day.
Now, if this were a hibernating race, he conceded grudgingly, perhaps they had been in their burrows or caves by late fall.
The peepers will remove the unformed buds so that the still hibernating 'Dini pair will never know.
In the next area she came to the rooms where the hibernating rodents and marsupials were housed.
He's slow, but he's sure as hell not hibernating — look at him chew on that slab.
She would be exploring a region where blood was close to freezing, where the body's chemical reactions proceeded at a fraction of their usual rates, where only a few hibernating animals and no human had ever ventured and returned to life.
He looked over the rows of coffinlike sleep slots, foggy from internal chill and condensation, each showing a dim, hibernating form within.
Tiny, mech-controlled rockets increased the spacing, guiding the hibernating colonists toward their first fiery encounter with the red planet’s atmosphere.
They must not live like animals, the members of La Raza, hibernating in their winter hovels like rattlesnakes.
Her brain tissue is saturated with a hypothalamic neurosecretion, remarkably similar to a chemical normally found in hibernating mammals.
In some hibernating animals, brain waves slow to virtually nil, with maybe one barely measurable burst of activity every twentyfour hours or so.
The idea of hiking for hours in the mountains, only to sleep wrapped in someone else's clothing in a cave that might contain hibernating animals, was not a pleasant one, and the siblings wished they did not have to take the road less traveled, but instead could travel in a swift, well-heated vehicle and reach their sister in mere moments.
The freezing water dulled the pain that had fired through his hands for the first few hours, but he knew that the best he could hope for from his evening’s activities was that both his hands would turn black— frozen more solidly than the hibernating lemmings they dug up for food.
But I've been asleep for months, and used as I am to hibernating for long periods, right now I'm hungry.