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   Veg·e·tate

   /ˈvejəˌtāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way: "if she left him there alone, he'd sit in front of the television set and vegetate"
   • 2. (of a plant or seed) grow; sprout: dated "he advised that seeds be sent in a vegetating condition"
   • ▪ cause plants to grow in or cover (a place): "the final task was to vegetate the area used to store the muck dredged from the pond"
   • 3. (of an abnormal growth) increase in size.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin vegetat- ‘enlivened’, from the verb vegetare, from vegetus ‘active’, from vegere ‘be active’.

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   What is vegetate verb?

   • Definition of vegetate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (of a person) to spend time doing very little and feeling bored Want to learn more? Definition of vegetate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   What does it mean if a person vegetates?

   • If someone vegetates, they spend their time doing boring or worthless things. He spends all his free time at home vegetating in front of the TV. [VERB] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. 3. Medicine

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   Where did the word vegetate come from?

   • The earliest known use of the verb vegetate is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for vegetate is from 1605, in a translation by Thomas Tymme, translator and devotional writer. vegetate is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin vegetāt-, vegetāre.

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   How do you know if a seed will vegetate?

   • From a small eye or a small potato to the largest they will vegetate equally well. Seeds placed on that wool, will vegetate sooner than they would do in the soil. Trying the quality of seeds is important, as it may save loss and disappointment, from sowing seeds that will not vegetate.

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   verb [ I ] us / ˈvedʒ·ɪˌteɪt / ( slang veg (out), us / ˈvedʒ ˈɑʊt /) Add to word list. to live or spend time in a way that lacks physical and mental activity and effort: The children just vegetate in front of the TV all morning. (Definition of vegetate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   2 days ago · 1. to grow like a plant; sprout. 2. to lead a life characterized by monotony, passivity, or mental inactivity. 3. pathology. (of a wart, polyp, etc) to develop fleshy outgrowths. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C17: from Late Latin vegetāre to invigorate. Word Frequency. vegetate in American English.

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   Etymology

   Borrowed from Latin vegetatum, past participle of vegeto (“I enliven, I arouse”).

   Pronunciation

   1. IPA(key): /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪteɪt/

   Verb

   vegetate (third-person singular simple present vegetates, present participle vegetating, simple past and past participle vegetated) 1. (of a plant) To grow or sprout. 2. (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally. 3. (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way. 3.1. 1804 March 5, Charlotte Smith, letter to Sarah Rose, quoted in Judith Phillips Stanton, “Introduction to Charlotte Smith’s Letters”, in The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, Bloomington, Ind.,...

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   Adverb

   vegetate 1. present adverbial passive participle of vegeti

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   Verb

   vegetāte 1. second-person plural present active imperative of vegetō

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   vegetate 1. second-person singular voseo imperative of vegetar combined with te

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   May 23, 2024 · 1. to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant. 2. to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing. to lie on the beach and vegetate. 3. Pathology. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.

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   What does the verb vegetate mean? There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb vegetate , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.