vegetate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To grow or sprout.
  2. To spread abnormally.
  3. To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way. informal
    — Nor indeed is it likely I shall now ever be able to do more than vegetate, for my few remaining years or months in this or some other solitude. It is literally vegetating, for I have very little locomotive powers beyond those that appertain to a cauliflower.

词形变化

vegetates present,singular,third-person vegetating participle,present vegetated participle,past vegetated past

词汇关系

相关词
vegetable

词源

Borrowed from Latin vegetātus, perfect passive participle of vegetō (“to enliven, to arouse”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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