vegetating

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

Others will stay, but will just “rest and vest,” vegetating until they gain ownership of their stock options.

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

It may be true, as Mark Twain once wrote, that "broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime."

For them, as for most of us, plants were just there in the background, vegetating away.