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

"To sit and vegetate is not my scene, I've got to keep myself active," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2012

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

What a miserable being must an old bachelor be!—he vegetates, but he cannot be said to exist—he passes his life in one long career of selfishness, and dies.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

It merely vegetates,  fleeing from enemies who are too strong for it, and depriving itself of a dangerous comfort.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

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

Well, I suppose that sort of individual is a little less obtuse when he lives within the roar of the great city's thunder than when he vegetates in the dismal outskirts of a manufacturing town.

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

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

Its landscapes include grasslands, lagoons, heathland and vegetated shingle, which supports a range of creatures, flora and fauna - not just birds.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

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

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

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote