hibernating

adjective hibernating

• dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
• asleep — Someone who is asleep is sleeping.
• prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
• out of it — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
• slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.