Category:Vegetate

Veg"e*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.] Etym: [l. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.]

1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and Leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, see life dissolving vegetate Again. Pope.

2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do Nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who. . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where Fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.

3. (med.)

Defn: to grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, A vegetating papule.