vegetate
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He used to come home from a hard practice and vegetate on the couch, shattered by exhaustion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
A long-distance lorry driver, he said he had no option but to pay privately or "sit and do nothing, vegetate and slow up".
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023
Made up of local efforts across 11 countries, it has reached just 16% of its overall goal to vegetate 150 million hectares.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 11, 2021
Birds arrive and leave droppings that help vegetate the future dunes.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2011
“He didn’t influence me. You know what I might do? I might stay right here in this hospital bed and vegetate. I could vegetate very comfortably right here and let other people make the decisions.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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