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hypersleep

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + sleep.

  1. inherited from *slēpaną✻ — “to sleep”
  2. inherited from *slāpan✻
  3. inherited from slēpan
  4. inherited from slepen
  5. prefixed as hypersleep — “hyper + sleep”

Definitions

  1. A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down…

    A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypersleep. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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