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Webster 1913 Edition
Vegetate
Veg′e-tate
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Vegetated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating
.] 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
See life dissolving
vegetate
again. Pope.
2.
Fig.: To lead a life 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
papuleWebster 1828 Edition
Vegetate
VEG'ETATE
,Verb.
I.
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.
Definition 2024
vegetate
vegetate
English
Verb
vegetate (third-person singular simple present vegetates, present participle vegetating, simple past and past participle vegetated)
- (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
- (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
- (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
Translations
To grow or sprout
To spread abnormally
To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way