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verb-intransitive. To spend the summer, as at a special place.

verb-intransitive. Zoology To pass the summer in a dormant or torpid state.

v. To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.

To pass the summer, as in a given place or in a given manner.

In zoology, to pass into or remain in the summer sleep, as some mollusks; be dormant in summer.

v. sleep during summer

"They hibernate — they estivate and they hibernate — until the following January, when you will have forgotten what a pain it was to follow the show week after unrewarding week, and you'll be able to feel excited by the return of the boinging theme music, and the old panel of judges, who will file in wearily and act pained that they have to sit through it all again."

estivated    estivates    estivating   

log z's    catch some z's    slumber    kip    sleep   

hibernate   

estivation    estival