Meaning of VEGETATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'veji`teyt
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | vege out |
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| | See Also: | | decompress, grow, live, loosen up, propagate, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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