Definitions for: Vegetate

[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

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: vege out

See Also: decompress, grow, live, loosen up, propagate, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind

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