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Examples of suspended animation in a Sentence
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
Recent Examples of suspended animation from the Web
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And such learned behaviours continue even after an animal has been in suspended animation for decades.
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Some of the specimens in Dr Rothman’s laboratory have been in suspended animation at -70°C for 33 years.
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First Known Use of suspended animation
1787
SUSPENDED ANIMATION Defined for English Language Learners
suspended animation
Definition of suspended animation for English Language Learners
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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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