hibernate
verb (used without object)
to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals.
have hibernated
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present perfectof hibernate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Other species which have hibernated may be found about the earliest flowers in spring.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
The rain also awakens from their slumbers the frogs that have hibernated and æstivated in the sun-baked beds of dried-up ditches and tanks.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
It would seem that even the devil himself must have left their valleys at this time, or have hibernated.
From The Mermaid A Love Tale by Lily Dougall
