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synonyms for hibernate

  • hole up
  • hide
  • immure
  • sleep
  • vegetate
  • winter
  • lie torpid
See also synonyms for: hibernating / hibernation
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How to use hibernate in a sentence

As of November 17, two locations are officially hibernating, ceasing operations entirely for the next few months and, hopefully, reopening when it’s safer and more profitable to serve customers again.
WHY RESTAURANTS ARE ‘HIBERNATING’ AND WHAT THAT REALLY MEANSHILLARY DIXLER CANAVANDECEMBER 18, 2020EATER
You may be tempted to hibernate through the end of 2020 and beyond, but we’ve got a whole slew of books set in cold locations to keep you awake.
THE PERFECT SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND GENRE-BENDING TALES FOR THE CHILLY DAYS AHEADSILVIA MORENO-GARCIA AND LAVIE TIDHARDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POST
To monitor the animals’ body chemistry, “I worked in dark, cold chambers — utterly quiet —surrounded by hibernating squirrels,” Rice says.
THESE ARCTIC SQUIRRELS RECYCLE BITS OF THEIR OWN BODIES TO SURVIVE WINTERCAROLYN WILKEDECEMBER 16, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
That’s the coldest body temperature ever recorded in a bird or non-hibernating mammal.
ONE HUMMINGBIRD SURVIVES COLD NIGHTS BY NEARLY FREEZING STIFFJONATHAN LAMBERTOCTOBER 26, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
It’s been well known that infants and hibernating animals have brown fat.
GENE EDITING CAN ALTER BODY FAT AND MAY FIGHT DIABETESSILKE SCHMIDTOCTOBER 23, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
The insects frequently hibernate in warmed houses, and may bite during the winter.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
It is thought that kangaroo rats do not hibernate but remain more or less active throughout the winter.
SPECIATION IN THE KANGAROO RAT, DIPODOMYS ORDIIHENRY W. SETZER
We cannot well believe that they hibernate, nor is the hypothesis of a sojourn in the middle strata of mid-ocean exactly tenable.
TALES OF FISHESZANE GREY
In winter they hibernate like our squirrels, passing several months underground in a kind of slow and nearly motionless existence.
CHATTERBOX, 1906VARIOUS
The above facts proved that it was just at the season of the year when the bear was ready to hibernate.
SEVENTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIERALEXANDER MAJORS
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WORDS RELATED TO HIBERNATE

  • conk out
  • crash
  • hibernate
  • languish
  • saw wood
  • sleep in
  • zonk out
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