Thesaurus: vegetate

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1. v. i. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
2. v. i. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
3. v. i. To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
4. v. lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
5. v. establish vegetation on
6. v. produce vegetation
7. v. grow like a plant
8. v. grow or spread abnormally
9. v. propagate asexually
10. v. engage in passive relaxation
11. 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.
12. To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as,a vegetating papule.