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

But after a while he became convinced that if he was ever going to do anything in Milagro besides vegetate and play the fool, he needed mobility.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

It merely vegetates at the whim of the mighty Czar, to whom it has become the obedient servant.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

The blossom falls and the fruit withers and decays; but here the similitude fails, for, though lost for the present, the season returns, the tree vegetates anew, and the blossom again puts forth.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

Sowing.—As the seed vegetates slowly,—sometimes remaining in the earth four or five weeks before the plants appear,—the sowing should be made as early in spring as the ground is in working condition.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

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

It is a region of desert mountains, where frost and snow continually reign, where the sun never shines, no plant vegetates, and no animal lives.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule

Flash floods are common in Northern Arizona because the arid, sparsely vegetated environments there have little capacity to absorb rain, the park's website said, urging visitors to be especially cautious from July to mid-September.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 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

Crews will be installing steel girders — long boxes of reinforced concrete — over the freeway in order to build the vegetated bridge, according to Caltrans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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

"It stops your life progressing. You're just vegetating your life away," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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