VEGETATING

Verb

vegetating

present participle of vegetate

Source: Wiktionary


VEGETATE

Veg"e*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.] Etym: [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.]

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.

2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.

3. (Med.)

Definition: To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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