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estivate

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es·ti·vate also aes·ti·vate  (st-vt)
intr.v. es·ti·vat·ed also aes·ti·vat·ed, es·ti·vat·ing also aes·ti·vat·ing, es·ti·vates also aes·ti·vates
1. To spend the summer, as at a special place.
2. Zoology To pass the summer in a dormant or torpid state.
[Latin aestvre, aestvt-, from aestvus, estival; see estival.]
estivate [ˈiːstɪˌveɪt ˈɛs-]
vb
(intr) the usual US spelling of aestivate
estivator  n
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Verb1.estivate - sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate"
aestivate
catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumber - be asleep
hibernate, hole up - sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"


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At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac -- his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us.
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