About The Word Vegetate
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Vegetate
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What's The Definition Of Vegetate?
[v] engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television"
[v] propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along" [v] grow or spread abnormally, as of a wart or polyp [v] grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously" [v] produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously" [v] establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house" [v] lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind Synonyms | Synonyms for Vegetate: vege out Related Terms | Find terms related to Vegetate: See Also | decompress | grow | live | loosen up | propagate | relax | slow down | unbend | unwind Vegetate In Webster's Dictionary \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to
enliven. See {Vegetable}.]
1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots
and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
See dying vegetables life sustain, See life
dissolving vegetate again. --Pope.
2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to
do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper.
Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in
the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey.
3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty
outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
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