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vegetate Definition


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vegetate
verb, intr vegetated, vegetating
    1. Said of a person: to live a dull inactive life. See also veg2.
      Thesaurus: degenerate, deteriorate, decay, stagnate, languish, idle, hibernate.
    2. To live or grow as a vegetable.
Etymology: 18c in sense 1; 17c in sense 2: from Latin vegetare, vegetatum to animate.



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