Coldsleep

Quick meaning: Coldsleep is a noun meaning A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.

Meaning

A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.

More Meanings

1. To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature; to engage in cryogenic sleep.

Example Sentences

Damnation, he was quite capable of refusing to let me cold-sleep.

By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough.

He had always believed Arcadia lovely, an undespoiled planet waiting for man like a bride, more than worth decades in coldsleep aboard a spaceship, toil and danger of pioneering, isolation from the rest of humankind.

The escape capsule in which he'd cold-slept had had another minor malfunction that left him staring drugged and half conscious through the port glass at open space for two days before the cryogenic process had kicked in.

Word Forms

• cold sleep
• coldsleeps
• coldsleeping
• coldslept

Synonyms for coldsleep

Depending on context, synonyms include cryo, cryopreservation, cryosleep, cryopreserve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cryosleep, cryopod, cryoll, sleeper, coldspot, cryoseism.

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