vegetate

1. v. i. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. Source: opted

2. v. i. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Source: opted

3. v. i. To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. Source: opted

4. v. lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind Source: wordnet

5. v. establish vegetation on Source: wordnet

6. v. produce vegetation Source: wordnet

7. v. grow like a plant Source: wordnet

8. v. grow or spread abnormally Source: wordnet

9. v. propagate asexually Source: wordnet

10. v. engage in passive relaxation Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

12. To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as,a vegetating papule. Source: adambom

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