vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
vegetates
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present tense formof vegetate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Taken as a whole, nobody could at first sight distinguish it in any way from the waving weed among which it vegetates.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
By this beneficial influence everything is born, grows, and vegetates.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
He vegetates as completely as any one I have ever seen or dreamed of.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
His son, unhappy as myself, vegetates in the lowest ranks of the army; the daughter, my poor sister, was abandoned, on the evening of our departure, before the house of a neighboring farmer.
From The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas père
As this bacillus vegetates and increases in numbers it excretes substances which act as irritants and poisons and which lead to the formation of a small nodule, called a tubercle, at the point of irritation.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
