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# hibernating

«hibernating» in Mova's school dictionary: **spending the winter in a deep sleep-like rest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (form of hibernate: hibernate, hibernates, hibernated, hibernating); adjective (hibernating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hibernating means spending the winter in a deep sleep-like rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#m1)

2) A hibernating animal is one that is in this long winter rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils learn that hedgehogs, bats, dormice, some bears, ground squirrels and many frogs and snakes hibernate: their body temperature drops, heartbeat and breathing slow down and they live on stored fat. In everyday life you should not disturb hibernating animals, for example in leaf piles before a bonfire. Phrases: hibernating animals, go into hibernation, wake from hibernation.

### examples

- The hedgehog is hibernating under the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x1)
- Check bonfire piles for hibernating hedgehogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x2)
- Hibernating bats hang in caves all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x3)
- A hibernating animal breathes very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x4)
- The bear is hibernating in its den. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x5)
- Frogs spend winter hibernating in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/#x6)

### note

From «hibernate» (drop the e, add -ing). Noun: hibernation. Myth: hibernation is not ordinary sleep — the body almost shuts down. Bears' winter rest is lighter than true hibernation; they can wake easily. Waking a hibernating animal uses up its fat and can kill it.

### In the corpora

- [Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them alive through the winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/12/)
- [Waking up in the middle of hibernation uses up a lot of the stored fat, so a hibernating animal should never be disturbed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hibernating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hibernating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.