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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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
I awoke as from sleep, and thought how I had vegetated these last days; for feeling leaves little trace on the memory if it be, like mine, unvaried.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
Year after year she had vegetated in the same small place.
From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
That had vegetated on down in the country, and had grown poorer while the others grew richer.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Wood Besant
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
