vegetate \veg"etate\, v. i. imp.  p. p. vegetated; p. pr. 
   vb. n. vegetating. l. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to
   enliven. see vegetable.
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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.
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            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. --cowper.
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            persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in
            the places where fortune had fixed them. --jeffrey.
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   3. med. to grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty
      outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
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see also:
vegetated vegetating vegetable