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View definitions for hibernate

hibernate

verb as in lie dormant; sleep through cold weather

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My default seems to be crawling into myself and hibernating with warm, soft-baked Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies with a glass of oat milk.

From Salon

Over winter, adult ticks do not hibernate and instead shelter from low temperatures in long vegetation.

From BBC

These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.

The fungus invades the skin tissue of hibernating bats and causes them to wake too often or too early during winter, depleting their precious fat stores when there’s scant food.

Yellow-bellied marmots hibernate for most of the year, but they become active between April and September.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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