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vegetate |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: vegetate 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: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
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