vegetate

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

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

During her many spells in hospital she didn't want to sit on her bed and "vegetate."

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2020

Birds arrive and leave droppings that help vegetate the future dunes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011

So mostly I just vegetate in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

Mrs. Adams gives me an account of a flower found in Connecticut, which vegetates when suspended in the air.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

As this bacillus vegetates and increases in numbers it excretes substances which act as irritants and poisons and which lead to the formation of a small nodule, called a tubercle, at the point of irritation.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

It grows upon a twining vine, and vegetates best in a clayey land.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

In the case of the Sphagnum, the upper part vegetates while the lower part is entering into a mineral mass, in which the traces of organization remain when life has entirely ceased.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The filaments in and on the substratum are the first existing members of the fungus; they continue so long as it vegetates.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

They have been found living along the vegetated banks of Osbaldwick Beck which runs through the park, following a seven-year project to improve the wildlife habitat in the area.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024

Crews will install girders over the freeway to support the crossing, a vegetated bridge that will reconnect wildlife habitat, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

These vegetated surfaces on the rooftops of buildings absorb excess storm water, reduce energy use by insulating buildings, and cool neighborhoods, tempering urban heat islands, while also creating urban habitats for plants, pollinators, and wildlife.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Even in that condition he went to law offices in Atlanta every day he could, chiefly to keep from vegetating.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020

And without work he and his wife began to feel that they were vegetating.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

“You said we don’t want people vegetating in public housing. Those comments were concerning to me,” remarked freshman Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017

Far from vegetating, those at the Metropolitan Playhouse pirouette, leap, cartwheel and even do the can-can and the highland fling.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2012

Otherwise you’re nobody, nothing, a potato vegetating in your seven-by-ten limbo.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote