0 to live in a way that has no physical and mental activity: --
1 to live or spend time in a way that lacks physical and mental activity and effort: --
She invented pollen so that the bare land could be vegetated for the animals to live upon.
The refugees are condemned to vegetate in poverty, usually without employment, while their children grow up illiterate.
Television has given us the perfect excuse to vegetate in our own homes without speaking.
All just vegetate and seem lost to the world.
This is not a matter that can be left vegetating for a long time.
As a result of continuing battles, supplies of food to the camps are interrupted, and refugees are left to vegetate in terrible conditions.
Keeping a man permanently without hope of release until he vegetates into old age is a terrible thing.
Several blanks were used, including field blanks (ambient air at remote, near sampling and vegetated sites), laboratory air blanks and procedural blanks.
