vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
had vegetated
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past perfectof vegetate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Year after year she had vegetated in the same small place.
From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Steamboats are rare in the Buckinghamshire hills, among which he had vegetated ever since their invention.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
His Excellency meditates upon his good luck, his titles, his decorations, harvested in a single year of war, after he had vegetated for nine-and-thirty years in peace and mediocrity.
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
In a practical view of the subject, however, we must admit that when the woodman fells a tree he sacrifices the colony of humbler growths which had vegetated under its protection.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
To find himself in mental contact with a man who had lived and thought through all the years during which he himself had vegetated at the Cross-roads, was a wonderful thing to him.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
