vegetate
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.
Origin of vegetate
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How to use vegetate in a sentence
Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure.
“Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry WoodHumanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles.
Astronomy for Amateurs | Camille FlammarionNo great inward commotion has ever visited them; they vegetate tamely on till they reach the grave.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonThen Tezpi, seeing that the country began to vegetate, left his bark on the mountain of Colhuacan.
I've been here a month without seeing a soul; I should go mad, if I had to vegetate for another seven months.
Lady Lilith | Stephen McKenna
British Dictionary definitions for vegetate
/ (ˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪt) /
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
Origin of vegetate
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