Dictionary Entry
vegetate
vegetate is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
- 2intransitive verb
Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
- 3intransitive verb
To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
- 4verb
engage in passive relaxation
"After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television"
- 5verb
propagate asexually
"The bacterial growth vegetated along"
- 6verb
grow or spread abnormally
"warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"
- 7verb
grow like a plant
"This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
- 8verb
produce vegetation
"The fields vegetate vigorously"
- 9verb
establish vegetation on
"They vegetated the hills behind their house"
- 10verb
lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
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