Vegetate /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating

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.

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

   Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them.

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