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Nap like a bear
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hibernate
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Word definitions for hibernate in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Amphibians may have survived because of their ability to hibernate or to enter a state of torpor. ▪ Few people look at the bright side of impromptu, outdoor conversations with hibernating neighbors. ▪ He had thought that a hibernating ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To spend winter time in hibernation. 2 (context intransitive computing English) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
Usage examples of hibernate.
You could tell everybody she needed rest so you suggested she hibernate a little earlier than scheduled.
Certain fish and toads that live in desert regions hibernate for long years, until the erratic rainfall returns and summons them back to life.
Like the wise bruin, I would hibernate for, say, six months out of the year and live a more or less normal life for the rest.
The Tosoks seemed to have a natural ability to hibernate, just as many Earth animals did.
Those lifeforms that have persisted on our world have developed a natural ability to hibernate during these times.
The durnai were meant to hibernate until the seasun drifted away, then we would wake them and they would follow it.
We hibernated, knowing that someday the seastar would drift this direction again.
I feared to reveal the truth, for they might take my claim to be a Hibernating Man as a sign of lunacy, and keep me locked up indefinitely.
Clete guessed they were medical readouts, monitoring the condition of the hibernating crew members.
I just went out for a moment with the idea of getting a frog or two before hibernating, and it pounced upon me like a hedgehog.
They are still in their hibernating den, so it will be easy to apply hemoom prodoh upon them.
Carp was walking steadily across blue-green vegetation that soaked up a last dribble of sunlight before digging down below-ground and hibernating until spring.
Its sensor clusters and thermo-dump panels emerged from the hull with the timidity of a hibernating creature venturing out into a spring day.
Ayla laughed at his look of startled surprise when a thick-tailed jerboa, with short forelegs, and three toes on its long hind legs, bounded away in jumps and dived into the burrow in which it had hibernated all winter.
I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland.