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vegetate
[ vej-i-teyt ]
verb (used without object)
, veg·e·tat·ed, veg·e·tat·ing.
- to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
- to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing:
to lie on the beach and vegetate.
- Pathology. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence.
vegetate
/ ˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪt /
verb
- to grow like a plant; sprout
- to lead a life characterized by monotony, passivity, or mental inactivity
- pathol (of a wart, polyp, etc) to develop fleshy outgrowths
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vegetate1
C17: from Late Latin vegetāre to invigorate
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Example Sentences
Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure.
From The Daily Beast
“Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.
From Project Gutenberg
Humanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles.
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No great inward commotion has ever visited them; they vegetate tamely on till they reach the grave.
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Then Tezpi, seeing that the country began to vegetate, left his bark on the mountain of Colhuacan.
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I've been here a month without seeing a soul; I should go mad, if I had to vegetate for another seven months.
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