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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Hereabout, or in near counties, where he has parochial duties, he vegetates slumberously, for twenty years or more.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
Not being capable of elevating himself high enough or falling low enough to reign over the lives of men, he lives or rather vegetates with a keen feeling of his mediocrity, which makes him despair.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
When practicable, the seed should be sown in the autumn; as it seldom vegetates well, unless subjected to the action of the winter.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
One vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, which is, however, sufficient for life.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The English walnut usually vegetates too early in the spring to escape some of our late frosts.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
