Meaning & use
hibernate
To spend the winter in a deep, inactive sleep, as some animals do to conserve energy.
See it in a sentence
Bears hibernate through the coldest months, living off stored body fat.
The old laptop seemed to hibernate for days without anyone touching it.
A note on using this word
In computing, "hibernate" describes a power-saving mode that saves the current state before shutting down.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To enter a computer power-saving mode that saves the current state to disk before shutting down.
Her laptop began to hibernate automatically after ten minutes of inactivity.
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