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How to pronounce hibernate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hole up
Type of catch some z's, kip, log z's, sleep, slumber
Derivation hibernation


Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves.
Type Words
Type of rest

Examples of hibernate

hibernate
The SATs force kids to hibernate in their houses and give up their social lives.
From the gothamgal.com
If they want to hibernate until they turn a lighter shade of pale, fine with me.
From the usatoday.com
The Knoxville Sentinel reports on bear behavior as they get ready to hibernate.
From the kentucky.com
It was an unusual place for the bats to hibernate, different from a mine or cave.
From the sacbee.com
Chilly winter weather makes even the most die-hard exerciser want to hibernate.
From the forbes.com
You state also that they have a 4-week lifetime but they hibernate in the winter.
From the usatoday.com
Jerboas hibernate during the winter and use the permanent winter burrow for this.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It attacks while they hibernate in caves and in abandoned mines during the winter.
From the washingtonpost.com
The fungus might cause the bats to starve as they hibernate, the researchers said.
From the dispatch.com
More examples
  • Sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"
  • Be in an inactive or dormant state
  • (hibernating) dormant: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"
  • (hibernation) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
  • (hibernation) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
  • (hibernation) the act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"
  • Hibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) library for the Java language, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. ...
  • Hibernation is a feature of many computer operating systems where the contents of RAM are written to non-volatile storage such as a hard disk, as a file or on a separate partition, before powering off the computer. ...
  • (Hibernating) Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate. ...