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Meanings of vegetate in inglés

Engage in passive relaxation.

Usage of vegetate in inglés
1
To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1
2
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
3
I might stay right here in this hospital bed and vegetate.
Catch-22
4
To sit still and stay in one place is to vegetate.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
5
To vegetate is an odd verb, sometimes even an unpleasant one.
The Guardian
6
Must not the inhabitants vegetate dully after the style of their own bananas?
Tropic Days
7
I don't need to vegetate in order to rest, do I?
Up the Hill and Over
8
What a contented folk this should be whose very homes can so vegetate!
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
9
I could vegetate very comfortably right here and let other people make the decisions.'
Catch-22
10
For forty-two months that child was content to sit on his fanny and vegetate.
The Short Life
11
To vegetate: to grow and cover the ground, but also to be apparently inactive.
The Guardian
12
All she knew was, that she wished to live, and not merely to vegetate.
In the Year of Jubilee
13
Indeed, I feel nothing at all, I only vegetate, waiting patiently for my end.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
14
Out of 100 nuts, only two-thirds, on an average, will be found to vegetate.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
15
The colony was left to vegetate in absolute poverty.
Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
16
One could be content to vegetate for ever here.
This Is the End
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