the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
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cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
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the act of retiring into inactivity
<noun.act> he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years
Hibernation \Hi`ber*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. hibernation.] The act or state of hibernating. --Evelyn.
'They never die, they just go into hibernation.
Moreover, the rot has continued into 1994 with vehicle output falling by around 12 per cent during the first quarter - although more recently there have been signs that Japanese car buyers are coming out of hibernation.
The alternative for some of them is to seek money from friends, mortgage the house, go out of business or, short of that, lay off their staffs and go into hibernation until banking's mean mood passes.
AFTER 20 years' hibernation Robert James Fischer has proved that, whatever powers he has lost, he has not lost the power to cause offence.
But Mr. Spence believes the bear market hasn't yet gone into hibernation.
Well, he just turned right around and high-tailed it back to the house." The city council originally wanted to move Thor out last fall, but Crosby said he wasn't willing to wake him from his hibernation for fear of raising the snoozing bruin's ire.
They can snatch up a newborn calf quicker than a hungry bear emerging from his winter hibernation.
Clearly, it takes more than the emergence of a nasty bear from hibernation to make most financial experts change their basic views on investing.
"They're in hibernation," says James Morehouse, a consultant for A.T. Kearney.
Nonetheless, bears on Green Tree, awakening from a painful hibernation, point to the filing's language as evidence of distress.
Now that the market for initial public stock offerings has awakened from its long slumber, investors aiming to snare quick profits by "flipping" IPOs are starting to come out of hibernation.
The squirrels roused at intervals during the deep winter months and their temperatures went up briefly to the mid-80s, but the animals quickly settled back into hibernation torpor and body readings again dropped to below freezing.