英语词汇“vegetate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	vegetate
释义	veg·e·tate \ˈvejəˌtāt, usu -ād.+V\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Medieval Latin vegetatus, past participle of vegetare to grow, flourish — more at vegetable *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to grow as a plant or after the fashion of plants < the algae usually vegetate vigorously — Florence Chase > b. : to produce vegetation < fields permitted to vegetate for a given time > c. : to propagate vegetatively as distinguished from sexually < a bacterial growth … was vegetating along with the fungus — Chronica Botanica > 2. : to lead a passive existence without initiative or exertion of body or mind : do little but eat and grow < a dull, ambitionless, vegetating individual — J.A.Brussel > < left to vegetate back to a robust physical health — William Manchester > < vegetate in luxurious subtropical surroundings — Jack Westeyn > < perfectly content to vegetate, to continue leading a humdrum, uneventful life — A.H. & Ruth Verrill > 3. : to grow exuberantly : produce fleshy or warty outgrowths < a vegetating tumor > *transitive verb* 1. obsolete : to cause to grow 2. : to establish vegetation in or on : provide the vegetation of < vegetate a hillside or ravine > < vegetate a meadow with native grasses > < dominant types of trees that vegetate a coral island — T.C.Roughley >
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