01 v. i. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
imp. & p. p.
Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Vegetating
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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.
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2.
Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.“Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them.” — Jeffrey.
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3.
To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.(Med.)