/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; vegetatus (ptp. of vegetare to quicken, enliven), equiv. to veget ( us ) lively (orig. ptp. of vegere to give vigor) + -atus -ATE 1 ]