overwinter
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vərˈwɪn verb (used without object)
to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) to spend winter (in or at a particular place) |
| 2. | (tr) to keep (animals or plants) alive through the winter |
| 3. | (intr) (of an animal or plant) to remain alive throughout the winter |
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Example sentences
When mature, they enter the ground to pupate and overwinter, and the adults emerge the following spring.
It produces winter buds from the stem tips which overwinter on the lake bottom.
Next year, these same individuals overwinter again, this time as third instars.
Adult bullfrogs overwinter in water to avoid freezing.
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