estivated

verb

variants or aestivated
past tense of estivate
as in kicked back

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estivated
  1. kicked back
  2. hibernated
  3. dozed
  4. idled
  5. bummed
  6. lazed
  7. droned
  8. dawdled
Verb
  • Under current rules, decisions from either the City Council or Planning Department can get kicked back and forth indefinitely.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In one such report, a single tear-gas cannister kicked back was recorded as forty-four assaults.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of kicked back
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  • New Horizons has hibernated more than 20 times since 2007, sometimes for days or even months, according to NASA.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • The five bears established dens, hibernated through the winter and emerged in the spring, the release said.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
Definition of hibernated
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  • His personal bodyguard dozed in the courtroom’s family and friends section as an assistant scrolled through her phone and his father demolished a Snickers.
    — Luke Jones, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The toothless man nodded, and the fat woman dozed.
    — Óscar Martínez, The Dial, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of dozed
Verb
  • That's a casualty of last year's government shutdown, which idled hundreds of government price-checkers so prices from October 2025 were never recorded for comparison.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The price of computers and smartphones would skyrocket as electronic manufacturers idled their factories.
    — Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of idled
Verb
  • I'mPhaedra Trethan, bummed out to hear one of my favorite baseball announcers has been let go in a round of ESPN layoffs.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 21 July 2026
  • Officer Rory lets Greg go, but the combination of the walk and thinking about his daughter’s predicament has bummed him out.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of bummed
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  • The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea.
    — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026
  • Further on, sandy-colored cows lazed in the mid-morning sun.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Definition of lazed
Verb
  • Iran continued its campaign of striking ships trying to use the Strait of Hormuz, with four droned in the last 24 hours.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Black Frankenstein, Superfly Snuka droned, without looking up from his clipboard.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of droned
Verb
  • But rather than head straight to Mars, the two spacecraft dawdled through a looping trajectory.
    — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • But, lucky for anyone who dawdled, many of the deals are still active.
    — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 June 2026
Definition of dawdled
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