Vegetate
verb (used without object), vegetated, vegetating.
1.
to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
2.
to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing:
to lie on the beach and vegetate.
3.
Pathology. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence.
verb (intransitive)
1.
to grow like a plant; sprout
2.
to lead a life characterized by monotony, passivity, or mental inactivity
3.
(pathol) (of a wart, polyp, etc) to develop fleshy outgrowths
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