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hibernation

noun as in vegetation

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Feminism had gone into partial hibernation during the 1990s, saddled with a reputation for severity and humorlessness.

The study also noted that bear attacks mostly occurred during August, when bears are gearing up for hibernation and seeking food.

A new fawning documentary, however, hopes to lure the Mama Grizzly out of campaign hibernation.

The big man wheeled around like a bear aroused from hibernation.

It's more of a coma, something like the hibernation of a bear or a possum.

Indeed it was what it seemed—War emerging from his hibernation and waking up to kill again.

The bat's secret appears to be that he is not the bird-mammal, but the mammal-insect: economy of tissue, hibernation.

There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals.

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On this page you'll find 255 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hibernation, such as: dawdling, dormancy, droning, inactivity, indolence, and inertia.

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

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