HIBERNATE meaning: Periodic dormancy in cold conditions

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Hibernate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

hibernate: Merriam-Webster
hibernate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hibernate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hibernate: Collins English Dictionary
hibernate: Vocabulary.com
hibernate: Wordnik
hibernate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hibernate: Wiktionary
hibernate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hibernate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hibernate: Infoplease Dictionary
hibernate: Dictionary.com
hibernate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hibernate (Java), Hibernate (OS feature), Hibernate (framework), Hibernate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hibernate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hibernate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hibernate: Rhymezone
hibernate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hibernate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
hibernate: FreeDictionary.org
hibernate: Mnemonic Dictionary
hibernate: TheFreeDictionary.com
Hibernate: Wordnik
hibernate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

hibernate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Hibernate: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
Hibernate (OS feature), Hibernate (computing), Hibernate (software), hibernate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

hibernate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
hibernate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

hibernate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

hibernate: Urban Dictionary

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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.

Similar:

hole up, hybernate, hivernate, hibernise, hive, hiddle, hotbunk, Hove, hoyden, hypo, more...

Opposite:

estivate

Types:

deep sleep, torpor, estivation, more...

Phrases:

places to hibernate, place to hibernate, one may hibernate, more...

Adjectives:

many, pupae, young, last, few, second, username, net, native, larvae, instar

Colors:

brown, gray, white, dark green, olive, more...