vegetate

Verb

Meaning

To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.

To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb Colton

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. Jules Verne

There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.); now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim. African Spir

Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross. Alison Bechdel

Nowadays, everyone seems to be emotionally dead, like zombies in pinstripe suits. Trudging to work each day to make a living, queueing up at McDonalds for their daily fuel intake, coming home to vegetate in front of the TV for hours on end. Ben Croshaw

I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. William Hazlitt

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