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VEGETATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetate mean?
• VEGETATE (verb)
The verb VEGETATE has 7 senses:
1. lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
7. engage in passive relaxation
Familiarity information: VEGETATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: vegetated


Past participle: vegetated


-ing form: vegetating


Sense 1
Meaning:
Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
live (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
vegetation (inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life)
vegetative (of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Establish vegetation on
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
They vegetated the hills behind their house
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
grow (cause to grow or develop)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Produce vegetation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The fields vegetate vigorously
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
grow (increase in size by natural process)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vegetation (the process of growth in plants)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Grow like a plant
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
This fungus usually vegetates vigorously
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
grow (increase in size by natural process)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vegetation (the process of growth in plants)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Grow or spread abnormally
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vegetation (an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Propagate asexually
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
The bacterial growth vegetated along
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vegetative ((of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Engage in passive relaxation
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
vege out; vegetate
Context example:
After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television
Hypernyms (to "vegetate" is one way to...):
decompress; loosen up; relax; slow down; unbend; unwind (become less tense, rest, or take one's ease)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
vegetation (inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life)
vegetative (of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous)
Context examples
In modern times, disturbances associated with land use are believed to be a dominant factor contributing to the activation of stabilized vegetated dunes in drylands.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
It's unclear, say D'Odorico and Okin, whether the Kalahari's dunes hang on the edge of a tipping point between their current state—vegetated fixed linear dunes—or have moved to what researchers call a degraded state, barren and active dunes.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
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