vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Is this Chartres where I am vegetating a waiting-place, a halting-place between two monasteries, a bridge leading from Notre Dame de l'Atre to Solesmes or some other Abbey?
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans