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hibernate

[hahy-ber-neyt] / ˈhaɪ bərˌneɪt /
VERB
lie dormant; sleep through cold weather
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Hibernate does the same thing, but it saves these things to your hard drive instead of using your system's memory.

From Fox News • Oct. 3, 2021

Hibernate: to pass the winter in a dormant condition.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Hibernate, hī′bėr-nāt, v.i. to winter: to pass the winter in torpor: to live in seclusion.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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