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Synonyms & Antonyms of hibernate
- bears hibernating in their dens
Synonyms and Near Synonyms for hibernate
- bum,
- chill,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- dillydally,
- drone,
- footle,
- goof (off),
- hack (around),
- hang (around or out),
- hang about
- [British],
- idle,
- kick around,
- kick back,
- laze,
- lazy,
- loaf,
- loll,
- lounge,
- veg out
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“Hibernate.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hibernate. Accessed 13 December 2019.
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The first known use of hibernate was in 1816
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