vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
are vegetating
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present progressiveof vegetate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Wouldn't you much rather have been the Greeks, who are dead, than any of the people who are vegetating nowadays?"
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan
While this great part of the French nation which is under his orders, is marching to great victories, we are vegetating here in complete dulness.
From The Court of the Empress Josephine by Thomas Sergeant Perry
He was found dead one morning in his room; his descendants are vegetating some in the city, some in the country.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
