Definitions for vegetate

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vegetate veg·e·tate

Spelling: [vej-i-teyt]

IPA: /ˈvɛdʒ ɪˌteɪt/

Vegetate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in vegetate (aeeegttv).

Definitions for vegetate

verb (used without object)

1. to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
2. to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing:
3. Pathology. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence.

Origin of vegetate

1595-1605; Latin vegetātus (past participle of vegetāre to quicken, enliven), equivalent to veget(us) lively (orig. past participle of vegēre to give vigor) + -ātus -ate

Examples for vegetate

You seem to think that, because I live in the country, I vegetate.

For forty-two months that child was content to sit on his fanny and vegetate.

And she could not be content to vegetate there for ever, a girl of her spirit.

How I wish you had let us remain & vegetate in our own little Island.

They vegetate in this condition for a long time, and may still be found there in May.

Would you like to vegetate like your dear good mother at Fairoaks?

All she knew was, that she wished to live, and not merely to vegetate.

Humanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles.

In the month of May, it buries itself in the earth, and begins to vegetate.

It must not be supposed, however, that every seed will vegetate.