Coldsleep
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep. uncountable
"By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough."
Verb
- 1 To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature; to engage in cryogenic sleep.
"Damnation, he was quite capable of refusing to let me cold-sleep."
Example
More examples"By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough."
Etymology
From cold + sleep.
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