Hibernate Definition

hībər-nāt
hibernated, hibernates, hibernating
verb
hibernated, hibernates, hibernating
To be in a dormant or torpid state during a cold period, especially during the winter.
American Heritage
To spend the winter in a dormant state.
Webster's New World

(intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.

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Origin of Hibernate

  • Latin hībernāre hībernāt- to winter from hībernus relating to winter ghei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin hibernātus, from hibernō, from hībernus (“winter”).

    From Wiktionary

Hibernate Sentence Examples

  • The genus is common to the northern half of both hemispheres, and its members burrow and hibernate.

  • Bats are social, nocturnal and they migrate to a warmer climate, or hibernate.

  • Those which inhabit temperate latitudes hibernate.

  • There are about twenty kinds of night-lizards, and many which hibernate.

  • In temperate climates the impregnated females hibernate during the winter in houses, cellars, stables, the trunks of trees, &c., coming out to lay their eggs in the spring.

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