Vegetate
Pronunciation : Veg"e*tate
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.]
Definition : 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.)
Defn: To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913