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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He seemed to have vegetated till then, and lo! true life had dawned.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
You have vegetated all your life, I can see that.
From A Fountain Sealed by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
If it had been in the earth, it would have vegetated, and burst the shell.
From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
I might certainly have obtained the mere necessaries of life at this hotel, where my credit was excellent, and have vegetated for a month or two, as a man must vegetate, without ready money.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
"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
