[
UK
/hˈaɪbənˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈhaɪbɝˌneɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪbɝˌneɪt/ ]
VERB
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sleep during winter
Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves - be in an inactive or dormant state
How To Use hibernate In A Sentence
- Although the cunner lives in the Bay all year, it hibernates in the mud during the winter season.
- Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
- I spend so much of the rest of the week with people, that I tend to hibernate on the seventh day.
- One was already examining log crevices at the cabin, perhaps looking for a place to hibernate.
- Like a creature of nature who can quickly adapt to her surroundings, I hibernate, metamorphose, undergo catharsis and finally become a butterfly.
- It's depressing if you don't have a girlfriend to hibernate with.
- The turtle hibernates in a shallow burrow for six months of the year.
- Many ground squirrels hibernate and some store food in underground burrows.
- In the Hibernate mapping file, by Configure the lazy attribute to determine the search strategy.
- Bears wake for spring, summer and fall and hibernate the winter.