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单词 hibernate
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hibernatev.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪbəneɪt/, U.S. /ˈhaɪbərˌneɪt/
Forms: Also hybernate.
Etymology: < Latin hībernāt-, participial stem of hībernāre to winter, < hīberna winter quarters, hībernus wintry.
1. intransitive. To winter; to spend the winter in some special state suited to resist it; said esp. of animals that pass the winter in a state of torpor. transferred. Of persons: To winter in a milder locality.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > hibernate
latibulize1802
hibernate1816
to den up1843
to hole up1890
the world > time > period > year > season > [verb (intransitive)] > pass the spring, summer, or winter
winterc1384
summer1440
aestivate1623
perhiemate1623
summerize1797
hibernate1816
spring1835
December1845
overwinter1895
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > in winter
winterc1384
hut1691
winter-quarter1693
winter1826
hibernate1865
overwinter1895
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 349 It is probable that some insects of almost every order hybernate in the egg state.
1827 L. Jermyn Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum (new ed.) 115 This species hybernates in the perfect state and sometimes survives the winter.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hibernate, To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters or in seclusion, as birds or beasts. Darwin.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 10 There are now positively no places on the shores of the Mediterranean where invalids can hybernate cheaply and comfortably.
2. figurative.
a. Of persons: To remain in a torpid or inactive state.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > temporarily
latibulize1802
hibernate1829
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 39 Inclination would lead me to hibernate during half the year.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 94 The public institution in which he hibernated (so to speak) during the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year.
b. Of things: To lie dormant.
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1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 305 The unsettled questions are hybernating, probably to bud and burgeon again at some future season.

Derivatives

ˈhibernating n. and adj.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > hibernating
latitant1646
dormitive1694
dormant1772
hibernant1836
hibernating1836
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [adjective] > hibernating
hibernating1836
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 766/2 In the sleep of the hibernating animal, the respiration is..impaired.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 395 Propagated by budding from marginal clefts, and by autumnal hybernating bulbils.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 262Hibernating gland’, a gland found in many Rodentia, Chiroptera, and Insectivora.
ˈhiberˌnator n. an animal that hibernates.
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1883 Sunday Mag. 674 The Faurde is really one of the hibernators, like our own hedgehog.
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