Usually means: Period of dormancy during winter.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word hibernating:

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  1. hibernating: Merriam-Webster
  2. hibernating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hibernating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hibernating, hibernating: Wordnik
  5. hibernating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hibernating: Wiktionary
  7. Hibernating, hibernating: Dictionary.com
  8. hibernating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hibernating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Hibernating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Hibernating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hibernating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hibernating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hibernating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hibernating: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hibernate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hibernate)

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.
verb:  (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
▸ Also see hibernate


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