Found 2 items, similar to Vegetate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vegetate vegetate v 1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind 2: establish vegetation on; “They vegetated the hills behind their house” 3: produce vegetation; “The fields vegetate vigorously” 4: grow like a plant; “This fungus usually vegetates vigorously” 5: grow or spread abnormally; “warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed” 6: propagate asexually; “The bacterial growth vegetated along” 7: engage in passive relaxation; “After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television” [syn: vege out]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vegetate Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.] [1913 Webster] 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [1913 Webster] See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] 3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [1913 Webster]