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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of aestivate.
  • verb Alternative spelling of estivated.

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Examples

  • The rain also awakens from their slumbers the frogs that have hibernated and aestivated in the sun-baked beds of dried-up ditches and tanks.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

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