vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
have vegetated
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present perfectof vegetate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They have vegetated in small provincial cities and inter-married into other equally fortunate families, but the sense of superiority is ever present to sustain them, under straitened circumstances and diminishing prestige.
From Worldly Ways and Byways by Eliot Gregory
"How the mushrooms have vegetated hereabouts," thought Moran, as he glanced up at the stack of the old work engine, but he was never much of a kicker, so he would not kick now.
From Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike by Cy Warman
"I have vegetated down here until I run a risk of softening of the brain," he said aloud.
From The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford
And above all, unheeding, century after century, the old monks have vegetated there, saying their masses, and ringing their chapel bells, high on the windy cliff.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
The broad and majestic river, winding along the extensive plain, and traversing the continents of the world, conveys to the distance of many hundreds of miles the seeds that may have vegetated at its source.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
