English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Result for Vegetate

Vegetate (v. i.)
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
Vegetate (v. i.)
Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
Vegetate (v. i.)
To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.