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estivate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
    • Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate. 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
estivated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
estivated Tense=Past lexicographic
estivating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
æstivate alternative lexicographic
aestivate alternative lexicographic
estivates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Coordinates

brumate · hibernate

Deriveds

estivation · estival

Translations (8)

cy hafgysgu (go into stasis in the summer months) · mi moe raumati (go into stasis in the summer months) · it estivare (go into stasis in the summer months) · es estivar (go into stasis in the summer months) · fa تابستان خفتن (go into stasis in the summer months) · zh 夏眠 (go into stasis in the summer months) · ca estiuar (go into stasis in the summer months) · fr estiver (go into stasis in the summer months)