vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
is vegetating
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present progressiveof vegetate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am living here in uncertainty, while my wife is vegetating at her father's and is missing me.
From The Duel and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The operetta, too, is vegetating; the pantomime serves hardly to amuse the children.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
Daniel shook his head: “It is said that she is vegetating, a mere shadow of her former self, in some kind of an institution in Erlangen,” he replied.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
This town at this moment is vegetating fo’ the want of some fo’ceful Elkins to put life into it.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
