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De - Pt| English Dictionary: vegetating | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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}.] 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.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. | |
