vegetate

Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure.

“Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.

Humanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles.

No great inward commotion has ever visited them; they vegetate tamely on till they reach the grave.

Then Tezpi, seeing that the country began to vegetate, left his bark on the mountain of Colhuacan.

I've been here a month without seeing a soul; I should go mad, if I had to vegetate for another seven months.