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

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

The Persian empire rushed through a short career of flame to its tomb; the Chinese empire vegetates, unchanged, through a myriad of years.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

The English walnut usually vegetates too early in the spring to escape some of our late frosts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association

He vegetates as completely as any one I have ever seen or dreamed of.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim

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

In his eyes, the success of a thing answers for its quality, and the charlatanism that succeeds is superior to the merit that vegetates.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn

It will be the world’s largest, covering ten lanes of traffic with 210 feet of vegetated bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026

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

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

He’s a name-dropper When Juan Pablo isn’t vegetating in front of the television, he hangs out with famous people, he told Andi on their overnight date.

From Time ● Mar. 11, 2014

I expect as i well it was the sight of my own father, vegetating in his chair by the fire.

From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman