Crossword-Solution: HIBERNATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hibernate | v. i. | To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “HIBERNATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sleep during winter | 1 answer |
| be in an inactive or dormant state | 1 answer |
| What bears do in winter. | 1 answer |
| Sleep like a bear | 1 answer |
| SPEND winter in torpid state (of animals) | 1 answer |
| One way to spend the winter | 1 answer |
| Emulate a bear | 1 answer |
| Dormant state in winter | 1 answer |
| Conserve energy, in a way | 1 answer |
| Burn off fat, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Breathe in/out and have a long sleep | 1 answer |
| Avoid the cold, in a way | 1 answer |
| Lie dormant | 2 answers |
| winter | 7 answers |
| DO BEARS | 10 answers |
| nap off | 10 answers |
| drowse | 11 answers |
| Siesta | 11 answers |
| Doze | 13 answers |
| Catnap | 13 answers |
| Vegetate | 15 answers |
| slumber | 20 answers |
| Snooze | 24 answers |
| Unwind | 25 answers |
| Drop off | 27 answers |
| Nod | 36 answers |
| Linger | 54 answers |
| Sleep __ | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HIBERNATE (5)
Gunners all the world over are the same—shy people, who hide themselves in holes and hibernate and mortally dislike being detected.
Fish weirs were taken up, the bay filled with ice, the packet ceased to run, and the village settled down to hibernate until spring.
Dickens went to hibernate on the Riviera upon a somewhat similar pretext, though fortunately without the same cause, as far as his health was concerned.
There is a nest of brown houses, clustered together like bee-hives, into which the few inhabitants creep to hibernate in the long winters, and several shops, grand hotels, and bathing-houses open for the season.
Perhaps the bear is helped by its habit of hibernating, which frees it from most dangers during winter; but this cannot be the complete explanation, for in the South it does not hibernate, and yet holds its own as well as in the North.
Quotes with HIBERNATE (3)
We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.
There was a part of me that was so horny, I wanted to climb on top of Randall on the first date. But there was also a part of me that was so terrified, I wanted to go home, put on my feety pajamas and hibernate for the winter.
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate people of whom we have never heard. More than that, we speak volumes — our language is the language of everything we have read. Shakespeare and the Authorised Version surface in supermarkets, on buses, chatter on radio and television. I find t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).