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vegetate 音標拼音: [v'ɛdʒət ,et] v. 長大;茫然地過日子 長大;茫然地過日子 vegetate v 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: grow or spread abnormally; " warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed" 6: propagate asexually; " The bacterial growth vegetated along" 7: engage in passive relaxation; " After a hard day' s work, I vegetate in front of the television" [ synonym: { vege out}, { vegetate}] Vegetate \ Veg" e* tate\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Vegetated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Vegetating}.] [ L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See { Vegetable}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. [ 1913 Webster] See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To lead a life too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. -- Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Med.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. [ 1913 Webster] 74 Moby Thesaurus words for " vegetate": be a sideliner, be still, blossom, brew, bud, burgeon, burst forth, coast, delay, develop, do nothing, drift, flourish, fust, gather, gemmate, germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, hang fire, hibernate, hypertrophy, idle, increase, just be, languish, leaf, leaf out, leave, lie dormant, luxuriate, mature, merely exist, mushroom, not budge, not stir, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, pass the time, procreate, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, reproduce, rest, riot, root, shoot, shoot up, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stagnate, strike root, take root, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, wait and see, watch and wait, wax
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