vegetate
verb (used without object)
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
will vegetate
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future tenseof vegetate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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You must banish your puerile fears, otherwise he will vegetate like a good-for-nothing in rags and misery, where you are, instead of being like me.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
When this is not done, seeds will vegetate very unevenly, and, in dry weather, some of them not at all.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
They will keep well two years; and if preserved from dampness, and placed in a cool situation, a large percentage will vegetate when three years old.
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
From a small eye or a small potato to the largest they will vegetate equally well.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
Seeds placed on that wool, will vegetate sooner than they would do in the soil.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
