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hibernating

Main Entry:
hibernate [hi-ber-neyt]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie dormant; sleep through cold weather
Synonyms: hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter
Main Entry: dormant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive; sleeping
Synonyms: abeyant, asleep, closed down, comatose, down, fallow, hibernating, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, on the shelf, out of action, passive, potential, prepatent, quiescent, sidelined, slack, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, suspended, torpid
Antonyms: active, lively
Main Entry: sleep
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: suspend consciousness
Synonyms: bed down, bunk, catch a wink, catch forty winks, catnap, conk out, cop some z's, crash*, doze, dream, drop off, drowse, fall asleep, fall out, flop, hibernate, hit the hay, hit the sack, languish, nap, nod, nod off, oversleep, relax, repose, rest, retire, sack out, saw wood, slumber, snooze, snore, take a nap, turn in, yawn, zonk out, zzz
Antonyms: wake, waken
Main Entry: stagnate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deteriorate by lack of action
Synonyms: constipate, decay, decline, fester, go to seed, hibernate, idle, languish, lie fallow, not move, putrefy, rot, rust, stall, stand, stand still, stifle, stultify, trammel, vegetate
Antonyms: grow, strengthen
Main Entry: vegetate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be very passive
Synonyms: be inert, decay, deteriorate, exist, go to pot, go to seed, hibernate, idle, languish, loaf, pass time, stagnate, weaken
Antonyms: activate, carry out, do
Main Entry: oversleep
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sleep
Synonyms: conk out, crash*, hibernate, languish, sack out, saw wood, sleep in, zonk out
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