intr.v., -tat·ed, -tat·ing, -tates.

1. To grow or sprout as a plant does.
2. Pathology. To grow in size or spread abnormally.
3. To exist in a state of physical or mental inactivity or insensibility.
4. Informal. To engage in relaxing or passive activities, such as watching television.

[Latin vegetāre, vegetāt-, to enliven. See vegetable.]

v

Definition: be very passive
Antonyms: activate, carry out, do

v

Definition: grow, sprout
Antonyms: die, go to seed

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IN BRIEF: To lead a lazy life. Also: To live as a plant might.

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. — William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

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The verb has 7 meanings:

Meaning #1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind

Meaning #2: establish vegetation on

Meaning #3: produce vegetation

Meaning #4: grow like a plant

Meaning #5: grow or spread abnormally, as of a wart or polyp

Meaning #6: propagate asexually

Meaning #7: engage in passive relaxation
  Synonym: vege out

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - vegetere

Nederlands (Dutch)
(weelderig) groeien als een plant, uitgroeiingen hebben, begroeien, vegeteren

Français (French)
v. intr. - végéter

Deutsch (German)
v. - vegetieren, (Bot.) wachsen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (μτφ.) φυτοζωώ, μουχλιάζω, βλασταίνω, φυτρώνω

Italiano (Italian)
vegetare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - vegetar

Русский (Russian)
расти, разрастаться, жить растительной жизнью

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - vegetar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - växa, slöa (fig.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
生长, 过单调乏味的生话

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 生長, 過單調乏味的生話

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - (식물이) 생장하다, (식물이) 증식하다, 무위 도식하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 無為に生きる, 単調な生活を送る, 増殖する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) عاش حياة خامله منعزله, عاش حياة رماديه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮צמח, חי חיים חדגוניים‬

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