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Vegetate

Vegetate Meaning & Definition
Vegetate Definition And Meaning

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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