Vegetate definition

vĕjĭ-tāt
vegetated vegetates vegetating
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To grow or sprout as a plant does.
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To exist with little mental and physical activity; lead a dull, inactive life.
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(medicine) To grow pathologically on a body part, as a wartlike lesion on a heart valve.
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To exist in a state of physical or mental inactivity.

He was just vegetating in his parents' house all winter.

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To engage in relaxing or passive activities, such as watching television.

Stayed home and vegetated last night.

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To grow over or cover with vegetation.

A dune that is vegetated.

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To grow as plants.
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(med.) To grow or increase in size, as a wart or other abnormal outgrowth does.
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To grow or sprout as a plant does.
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(medicine) To grow pathologically on a body part, as a wartlike lesion on a heart valve.
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(of a plant) To grow or sprout.
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(of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
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(informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, un-challenging way.
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Origin of vegetate

  • Latin vegetāre vegetāt- to enliven vegetable

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin vegetatum, past participle of vegeto (“I enliven, I arouse")

    From Wiktionary

Vegetate Sentence Examples

  • Flower Garden, &c. - Sow in the beginning of this month all halfhardy annuals required for early flowering; also mignonette in pots, thinning the plants at an early stage; the different species of primula; and the seeds of such plants as, if sown in spring, seldom come up the same season, but if sown in September and October, vegetate readily the succeeding spring.

  • Fumago, Herpotrichia, &c., or, at most, vegetate in the intercellular spaces and anchor itself to the cell-walls, e.g.

  • On the drift-sands of France, especially in the Gironde, forests have been formed mainly of this pine; the seeds, sown at first under proper shelter and protected by a thick growth of broom sown simultaneously, vegetate rapidly in the sea-sand, and the trees thus raised have, by their wind-drifted seed, covered much of the former desert of the Landes with an evergreen wood.

  • His great work, however, is the Dissertationi de fisica animale e vegetate (2 vols., 1780).

  • A prey to perpetual alarm, the people entrenched themselves behind those high walls of the oppida which Roman security had razed to the ground, but imperial impotence had restored, and where life in the middle ages was destined to vegetate in unrestful isolation.

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