hibernate
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- 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.
- To live in seclusion.
- To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
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