Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - suspended animation
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Suspended animation
suspended animation
1. Suspended animation is a state in which an animal is unconscious, with its body functioning very slowly, for example so that the animal can survive the winter. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you describe someone as being in a state of suspended animation, you mean that they have become inactive and are doing nothing. She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise... N-UNCOUNT
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1.
noun Date: 1787 1. temporary suspension of the vital functions (as in persons nearly drowned) 2. a condition (as inactivity) likened to ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
1. мед. бесчувствие, временное прекращение жизненных функций (у утопленника и т. п.) 2. обыкн. ирон. полное отсутствие деятельности; застой to put (a measure etc.) in a state of suspended animation —- образ. отложить (мероприятие и т. п.) на неопределенный срок; "заморозить" 3. воен. жарг. период расформирования (части) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
~ n 1 a state in which someone's body processes are slowed down to a state almost like death 2 a feeling that you cannot do anything because you have to wait for what happens next ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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