Crossword-Solution: VEGETATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vegetate | v. i. | To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. |
| Vegetate | v. i. | Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. |
| Vegetate | v. i. | To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “VEGETATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| propagate asexually | 1 answer |
| live a dull boring life with no mental stimulation | 1 answer |
| grow or spread abnormally | 1 answer |
| Watch the tube all day, say | 1 answer |
| Watch Netflix all day, say | 1 answer |
| Spend time in a dull, inactive, and unchallenging way | 1 answer |
| Produce plants | 1 answer |
| Merely exist. | 1 answer |
| Lead a dull, inactive life | 1 answer |
| Grow like a plant | 1 answer |
| Be mentally inactive | 1 answer |
| Lead a dull, passive life | 2 answers |
| Live a dull, passive life | 2 answers |
| GROW exuberantly | 2 answers |
| Go to seed | 3 answers |
| Subsist | 7 answers |
| BE A COUCH POTATO | 13 answers |
| "Chill out!" | 20 answers |
| Do-nothing | 22 answers |
| Exist | 23 answers |
| Do nothing | 23 answers |
| Sprout | 24 answers |
| Tarry | 34 answers |
| BE ___ | 37 answers |
| burgeon | 40 answers |
| grow | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VEGETATE (5)
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country,”—which is the gist of all that can be said upon the matter.
Most men thus circumstanced contrive to buy or brutally manage to enforce their independence; but many vegetate without hope, strangled by parasites.
Many people merely exist, are kept alive by others, or continue to vegetate because the persistent action of normal functions will allow of their doing no less.
LXII "Not only should these many souls have weight To bend thy purpose, holy souls, and bright, Which from thy fruitful tree shall vegetate; But, though alone, a single couple might Suffice a nobler feeling to create, Alphonso and his brother Hyppolite: Whose like was seldom witnessed to this time, Through all the paths whence men to virtue climb.
The shape of every branch and twig is expressed in a deep red glow, and as the light wind stirs and ruffles it, they seem to vegetate in fire.
Quotes with VEGETATE (3)
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.
Love will not come to me again. I’ll vegetate like a plant in a cellar, without light.
Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2012).