Meaning

3 senses

  1. To grow or sprout.

    grow or spread abnormally

  2. To spread abnormally.

  3. (informal)To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.

    vegetieren

    прозяба́тьprozjabátʹ

Examples

5 sentences

  1. I'd rather die now than vegetate for fifty more years.

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  2. This summer, Tom vegetated in his bed and watched movies.

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  3. Most people just vegetate.

    deDie meisten Menschen vegetieren nur.

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  4. Stop vegetating on the couch.

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  5. "What are you doing?" "I'm vegetating."

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way:
Deutsch
to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin vegetātus, perfect passive participle of vegetō (“to enliven, to arous

Borrowed from Latin vegetātus, perfect passive participle of vegetō (“to enliven, to arouse”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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Forms

vegetates, vegetating, vegetated, vegetated
Base formvegetate · to vegetate
3rd person singularvegetates
Present participlevegetating
Past simplevegetated
Past participlevegetated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyvegetate
he, she, itvegetates

Past simpleLesson

all personsvegetated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave vegetated
he, she, ithas vegetated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill vegetate

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • engage in passive relaxation:veg out

Word family

6 related words
RelatedvegetableA1vegetativevegetation
Deriveddevegetaterevegetatevegetatious

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
vegetableA1vegetarianB1vegetarianismvegetationC1veggievehemence
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