animals that sleep through the winter in a state of suspended animation
the husband's feeling that their love life was in suspended animation while his wife lavished all her attention on the new baby
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: a state in which the processes of the body (such as blood circulation) stop or become very slow for a period of time while a person or animal is unconscious
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