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verb (used without object), -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
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.
Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin vegetātus (past participle of vegetāre to quicken, enliven), equivalent to veget(us) lively (orig. past participle of vegēre to give vigor) + -ātus -ate1
1595–1605; < Latin vegetātus (past participle of vegetāre to quicken, enliven), equivalent to veget(us) lively (orig. past participle of vegēre to give vigor) + -ātus -ate1
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Vegetated
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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vegetate
1605, "to grow as plants do," perhaps a back-formation from vegetation, or from L. vegetatus, pp. of vegetare "to enliven, to animate" (see vegetable). Sense of "to lead a dull, empty, or stagnant life" is from 1740.
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