单词 | vegetate |
释义 | vegetate /vej"i tayt'/, v.i. , 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. Pathol. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence. [1595-1605; < L vegetatus (ptp. of vegetare to quicken, enliven), equiv. to veget(us) lively (orig. ptp. of vegere to give vigor) + -atus -ATE1] |
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