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(), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Vegetated (); p. pr. & vb. n.Vegetating.] [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.] 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.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. スポンサード リンク
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