Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of hibernate, hibernation.
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
hibernate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The infection is targeting bats that hybernate during the winter instead migrate.
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And when you close your laptop, it automatically puts it in hybernate mode, you don't have to shut it down completely especially if you are like me, going back online every 20 minutes.
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Since our last visit, many of the tenants have begun to _hybernate_, and tasteful erections have been made for their winter quarters in all parts of the gardens.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
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In a state of nature they hybernate; but when kept in a room, a favourite resort in cold weather was among the ashes under a fire-grate.
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Throughout the winter the creatures hybernate, shutting themselves up by their operculum whilst lying among dead leaves, or having fixed themselves by their glutinous secretion to a wall or tree.
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Fremont believed in it, and his plan was to reach it before the dead of winter, and then hybernate upon it.
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As I say, let me hybernate until the birds of passage come and the young leaves are green in the spring.
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I refer to a habit of some ophidians, in temperate and cold countries, of returning annually to hybernate in the saine den.
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They are said to hybernate during the season there.
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They were somnolent by day, active by night, and did not hybernate in Nepal.
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