vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
have been vegetating
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present perfect progressiveof vegetate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I was in London during January and February last, but have been vegetating down here ever since.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
For nine years I have been vegetating in this miserable hole.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
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