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hibernate

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  1. 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.
  2. To live in seclusion.
  3. To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.

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