Crossword-Solution: HIBERNATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hibernation | n. | The act or state of hibernating. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “HIBERNATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter | 1 answer |
| Sleep mode? | 1 answer |
| Bears' activity | 1 answer |
| Bear business. | 1 answer |
| Winter sleep for animals | 1 answer |
| torpid state | 2 answers |
| beauty sleep | 2 answers |
| first sleep | 3 answers |
| Land of Nod | 5 answers |
| slumber | 20 answers |
| Snooze | 24 answers |
| idle hours | 27 answers |
| Cubbyhole | 29 answers |
| Refresh | 62 answers |
| peaceful state | 65 answers |
| Span | 77 answers |
| insensibility | 78 answers |
| Sleep __ | 81 answers |
| Inactivity | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with HIBERNATION (5)
Relative to hibernation, it is well-known that mice, snakes, and some reptiles, as well as bees, sometimes seem to entirely suspend animation for an extended period, and especially in the cold weather.
But the waking hours grew less, becoming semi-waking or half-dreaming hours as the process of hibernation worked their way with him.
But with all his professional and social duties he still kept up his scientific investigations, among other things making some careful observations on the hibernation of hedgehogs at the instigation of Hunter, the results of which were laid before the Royal Society.
There, too, they found a plantation of willows, already in bud with soft moleskin buttons, and a tortoiseshell butterfly, evoked by the sun from its hibernation, settled on one of the twigs, opening and shutting its diapered wings, and spreading them to the warmth to thaw out the stiffness and inaction of winter.
Dig one out during hibernation (Audubon did so), and you find it a mere inanimate ball, that suffers itself to be moved and rolled about without showing signs of awakening.
Quotes with HIBERNATION (3)
Everything hurts. He can barely lie still. He feels caught. He wants to run, but where? He feels certain he will always remain like this - trapped within his own body, his own mind. The emotional pain is so strong, it becomes physical. He feels it knotting and twisting inside him, ready to crush him, suffocate him. He is losing his grip, he is losing his mind. He thought he had it all back under control, but suddenly nothing makes sense any more. Does anyone else know what it…
My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.
Dale’s face is older. Just a little. Around the eyes and mouth. The skin of his neck. The back of his hands. Maybe not, he thinks, turning on the faucet, letting the water grow warm then hot. He begins shaving his lubricated chin and cheeks. Chrysalis hibernation slows things down, but it doesn't stop them, not all together, and he finds himself to currently resemble something between a derelict and a college student, neither one ringing particularly desirable in his present mood.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1954–2015).