intransitive verb vegetated -·tat′·ed, vegetating -·tat′·ing

1. to grow as plants
2. to exist with little mental and physical activity; lead a dull, inactive life
3. Med. to grow or increase in size, as a wart or other abnormal outgrowth does

Etymology: < L vegetatus, pp. of vegetare, to enliven < vegetus, lively < vegere, to quicken, wake; vegetatesenses & infl. by vegetable