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Hibernating

adjective

In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation. Synonyms: dormant, torpid. "A hibernating bear" , "Torpid frogs"

Hibernate

verb

(past & past part. hibernated; pres. part. hibernating)

Sleep during winter. Synonym: hole up.

Be in an inactive or dormant state.

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"Hibernating" Quotes from Famous Books

... smiled as she answered, "Let us invite the children of our hibernating friends. I think that will be pleasanter. We'll invite Auntie Cinnamon's children, and Uncle Brown Bear's family, and the Porcupine twins, and the Field Mice children, and the young Musk-rats. If you will do the inviting, I will ...

— Little Bear at Work and at Play • Frances Margaret Fox

... public papers; in fact, I took it out of the newspaper of that morning. On another occasion, out of fourteen candidates for the office of Principal teacher of a boys' Grammar school, four defined "friable" as that which can be fried; several did not know at all the meaning of "hibernating," and one, the successful candidate, said it meant "relating to Ireland." By "successful" candidate, I mean the one who got the vote ...

— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

... and the current gossip and the popular fads. Turn about is fair play. It is time for some of you to tell me what just now most interests this country-side. My idea of country life is that it is about as exciting as the winter sleep of a dormouse or of a hibernating bear; but for all I know, it may be as lively in its way as life in town; you may be agog over some occurrence as important to you as a change of Palace Prefects would be at Rome. Speak out somebody, if there is anything ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... the historical toad-in-a-hole narrows itself down in the end merely to this—how long is it credible that a cold-blooded creature might sustain life in a torpid or hibernating condition, without food, and with a very small quantity of fresh air, supplied (let us say) from time to time through an almost imperceptible fissure? It is well known that reptiles and amphibians are particularly tenacious of life, and that some turtles in particular will live ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... walls in the early morning while they feed; you should also see our back log when the thermometer goes (as it does go) away - away below zero, till it can be seen no more by the eye of man - not the thermometer, which is still perfectly visible, but the mercury, which curls up into the bulb like a hibernating bear; you should also see the lad who 'does chores' for us, with his red stockings and his thirteen year old face, and his highly manly tramp into the room; and his two alternative answers to all questions about the weather: either 'Cold,' ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

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