vegetate
ve juh tayt
- v lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- v establish vegetation on
They vegetated the hills behind their house - v produce vegetation
The fields vegetate vigorously - v grow like a plant
This fungus usually vegetates vigorously - v grow or spread abnormally
warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed - v propagate asexually
The bacterial growth vegetated along - v engage in passive relaxation
After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television
- French automobile interests are seeking to bar American cars in order to permit them to allow their business to vegetate without the benefit of the improvements and progress .
- So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses.
- But times are too difficult, life too uncertain, the world too hard to enable one to vegetate too long in the darkness without risk of succumbing.