Word Meanings - HIBERNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great

Additional info about word: HIBERNATE

To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIBERNATE)

• Vegetate
• Grow
• sprout
• germinate
• idle
• bask
• pullulate
• hibernate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIBERNATE)

• Blight
• wither
• decay

Related words: (words related to HIBERNATE)

• GERMINATE
  To cause to sprout. Price .
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• WITHERED
  Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• WITHERS
  The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
• WITHERNAM
  A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in
• WITHER
  Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WITHERBAND
  A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
• WITHERING
  Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.
• BLIGHT
  as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. blasts vegetables, blights
• VEGETATE
  To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. (more info) 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life
• HIBERNATE
  To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great
• BLIGHTING
  Causing blight.
• WITHERLING
  A withered person; one who is decrepit. Chapman.
• DECAYED
  Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.
• BLIGHTINGLY
  So as to cause blight.
• WITHERITE
  Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.
• SPROUT
  spruiten, G. spriessen, Sw. spruta to squirt, to spout. Cf. Sprit, v. 1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. 2. To shoot into ramifications. Bacon.
• PULLULATE
  To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.
• INGERMINATE
  To cause to germinate.
• REPULLULATE
  To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• EGERMINATE
  To germinate.
• REVEGETATE
  To vegetate anew.