*vegetate*

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Vegetated p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating. ] [ L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [ 1913 Webster ]