vegetate
pronunciation
How to pronounce vegetate in British English:
UK [ˈvedʒəteɪt]
How to pronounce vegetate in American English:
US [ˈvɛdʒɪˌtet]
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- Verb:
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- establish vegetation on
- produce vegetation
- grow like a plant
- grow or spread abnormally
- propagate asexually
- engage in passive relaxation
Word Origin
- vegetate (v.)
- c. 1600, "to grow as plants do," perhaps a back-formation from vegetation, or from Latin vegetatus, past participle of vegetare "to enliven, to animate" (see vegetable (adj.)). Sense of "to lead a dull, empty, or stagnant life" is from 1740. Related: Vegetated; vegetating.
Example
- 1. Many elderly folk vegetate and die in loneliness .
- 2. Veg : to vegetate , to relax and do nothing .
- 3. The vegetables in the garden vegetate vigorously .
- 4. The understanding of conflict doesn 't mean that you vegetate or become like a cow .
- 5. Newton and his peers believed it was possible to prompt metals to grow , or " vegetate , " in a flask .