Vegetate

Definitions: Vegetate

Vegetate

Verb

1. Lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind.

2. Establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house".

3. Produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously".

4. Grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously".

5. Propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along".

Date "vegetate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references)

Note: Vegetate \Veg"e*tate\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Vegetated; present participle verb or noun Vegetating.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Existence	Verb: exist, be; have being; Noun: subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur; (event); have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate.
Expansion	Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.
Inactivity	Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
Insensibility	Verb: be insensible; Adjective: have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility; Noun: not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari; not care a straw; (unimportance) for; disregard; (neglect); set at naught; (make light of); turn a deaf ear to; (inattention); vegetate.
Vegetability\|	Verb: vegetate, grow roots, put down roots.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vegetate

English words defined with "vegetate": Phycomater ♦ Revegetate ♦ Vegetated, Vegetating. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	In those countries which are but little developed, industrially and commercially, these two classes still vegetate side by side with the rising bourgeoisie. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	You vegetate, that is to say you develop in some wretched fashion, but sufficient for existence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vegetate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Vegetate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Language		Translations for "vegetate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vegjetoj, rritet bimësia, bëj jetë të kotë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نبت (germinate, growing, spring, sprout, sprung), ‏حيي حياة فارغة, ‏زرع (crop, cultivate, grow, implant, lay, plant, plantation, planting, put in, rear, seed, sow, sowing). (various references)

Bulgarian		раста (grow, increase, lengthen, wax), вегетирам. (various references)

Czech		vegetovat (eke out one's living), rùst (accretion, grow, grow up, growth, increase, plant, spindle, upgrowth), živořit. (various references)

Dutch		vegeteren, groeien (accrue, augment, grow, increase). (various references)

Esperanto		vegeti. (various references)

Faeroese		vaksa (accrue, grow), liva (be alive, live), grógva. (various references)

Farsi		مثل گیاه زندگی کردن , روءیدن (Grow). (various references)

Finnish		kasvaa (accrue, grow, growing up, increase, to take roots). (various references)

French		végéter. (various references)

German		vegetieren (eke out a bare existence). (various references)

Greek		βλαστάνω (bud, burgeon, germinate, sprout), φυτόζωω (zoophyte), αδρανώ (be inert, stagnate). (various references)

Hebrew		לחיות חיים ריקים. (various references)

Hungarian		vegetál (to vegetate), növekszik (accrue, be on the increase, escalate, thrive, to accrue, to augment, to gather, to gather head, to get large, to get larger, to grow big, to grow large, to grow larger, to heighten, to redouble, to wax). (various references)

Italian		vegetare (grow). (various references)

Manx		goll eig (die out, go off, stale), glassrey (vegetable). (various references)

Pig Latin		egetatevay

Portuguese		vegetar. (various references)

Romanian		vegeta. (various references)

Russian		прозябать (become a mere vegetable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vegetirati, životariti (hustle, scrape). (various references)

Spanish		vegetar. (various references)

Swedish		vegetera, vara overksam, växa (accrue, germinate, grow, increase, Mount, wax). (various references)

Turkish		ot gibi yaşamak (live like a vegetable), bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, wear out), büyümek (accrue, augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, extend, flourish, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, wax). (various references)

Ukranian		рости (biggen, grow), озеленяти (wood), збільшуватися (accede, accrue, aggrandize, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, lengthen, multiply, run up, wax), животіти. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vegetate": vegetated, vegetates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "vegetate": revegetate. (additional references)
	Words containing "vegetate": revegetated, revegetates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vegetate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vegeta, vegetata, vigette. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vegetate" (pronounced ve"jutā't)
5	-j u t ā' t	agitate, cogitate.
4	-u t ā' t	acetate, amputate, annotate, debilitate, decapitate, facilitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, incapacitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, militate, necessitate, precipitate, premeditate, rehabilitate, resuscitate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-t-t-v"
	-2 letters: vegete.
	-4 letters: agee, eave, gate, gave, geta, tate, teat.
	-5 letters: age, ate, att, ave, eat, eta, eve, gae, gat, gee, get, tae, tag, tat, tav, tea, tee, teg, tet, vat, vee, veg, vet.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: vegetated, vegetates.
	+2 letters: revegetate, vegetative.
	+3 letters: revegetated, revegetates.
	+4 letters: revegetating, revegetation, tergiversate, vegetatively.
	+5 letters: reintegrative, reinvestigate, revegetations, televangelist, tergiversated, tergiversates.
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