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Vegetate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VEG'ETATE, v.i. [L. vegeto, vigeo, to flourish.]
To sprout; to germinate; to grow; as plants; to grow and be enlarged by nutriment imbibed from the earth, air or water, by means of roots and leaves. Plants will not vegetate without a certain degree of heat; but some plants vegetate with less heat than others. Potatoes will vegetate after they are pared.
See dying vegetables life sustain, see life dissolving vegetate again.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
2: establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"
3: produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"
4: grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
5: grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"
6: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
7: engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" [syn: vege out, vegetate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Medieval Latin vegetatus, past participle of vegetare to grow Date: 1605 intransitive verb 1. a. to grow in the manner of a plant; also to grow exuberantly or with proliferation of fleshy or warty outgrowths b. to produce vegetation 2. to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind transitive verb to establish vegetation in or on

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. 1 live an uneventful or monotonous life. 2 grow as plants do; fulfil vegetal functions. Etymology: L vegetare animate f. vegetus f. vegere be active

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vegetate 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vegetates, vegetating, vegetated) If someone vegetates, they spend their time doing boring or worthless things. He spends all his free time at home vegetating in front of the TV. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Shoot, germinate, spring, pullulate, grow (as a plant), shoot up, spring up, put forth, swell. 2. Bask, idle, hibernate, do nothing, be inactive.

Moby Thesaurus

be a sideliner, be still, blossom, brew, bud, burgeon, burst forth, coast, delay, develop, do nothing, drift, flourish, fust, gather, gemmate, germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, hang fire, hibernate, hypertrophy, idle, increase, just be, languish, leaf, leaf out, leave, lie dormant, luxuriate, mature, merely exist, mushroom, not budge, not stir, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, pass the time, procreate, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, reproduce, rest, riot, root, shoot, shoot up, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stagnate, strike root, take root, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, wait and see, watch and wait, wax