'Vegetate' definitions:

Definition of 'vegetate'

(from WordNet)
verb
Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
verb
Establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"
verb
Produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"
verb
Grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
verb
Grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"
verb
Propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"
verb
Engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" [syn: vege out, vegetate]

Definition of 'Vegetate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [1913 Webster]
  • See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'vegetate'

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