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Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Vegetated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Vegetating}.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to
enliven. See {Vegetable}.]
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1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots
and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
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See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again. --Pope.
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2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to
do nothing but eat and grow. --Cowper.
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Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in
the places where fortune had fixed them. --Jeffrey.
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3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty
outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
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