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přezimovat — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hibernate verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
  • overwinter verb To keep or preserve for the winter.

Senses

přezimovat is used for these senses in English:

  • hibernate (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.

hibernate — full definition

  1. verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
  2. verb For a computer to enter a power-saving mode that saves its current state to disk.

overwinter — full definition

  1. verb To keep or preserve for the winter.
  2. verb To spend the winter (in a particular place).