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/ˈhaɪbə(r)ˌneɪt/ · verb
(intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep..
Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.
Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.
Use hibernate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hibernate means (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep..
Common synonyms include hole up.
Possible antonyms include aestivate, estivate.
Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.
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