Vegetate Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Vegetate

sprout
To grow or to cause to sprout
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bud
To insert (a bud of a plant) into the bark of another plant
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blossom
To develop; flourish:
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hibernate
(Intransitive) To spend winter time in hibernation.
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stagnate
To be or become stagnant
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languish
The definition of languish is to fail to advance or move forward, or to grow weak.
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deteriorate
To weaken or disintegrate; decay:
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germinate
The definition of germinate is to start to grow, develop or sprout.
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idle
To move slowly or aimlessly; loaf
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loaf
To spend time idly; loiter or lounge about; idle, dawdle, etc.
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rusticate
To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
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vege out
engage in passive relaxation
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Antonyms for Vegetate

activate
To organize or create (a military unit, for example):
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carry out
(Idiomatic) To fulfill.
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do
To mimic:
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die
Die is defined as to stop living, existing or fade away.
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go-to-seed
(Figuratively, by extension) To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition.
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Words Related to Vegetate

bloom
To support plant life in abundance:
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grow
To cause to grow; raise:
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decay
To rot or decompose
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weaken
To make or become weak or weaker
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marshy
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low-lying
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salt-marsh
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tide-swept
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forested
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shingle
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scrubland
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Vegetate Sentence Examples

  • Flower Garden, &c. - Sow in the beginning of this month all halfhardy annuals required for early flowering; also mignonette in pots, thinning the plants at an early stage; the different species of primula; and the seeds of such plants as, if sown in spring, seldom come up the same season, but if sown in September and October, vegetate readily the succeeding spring.

  • Fumago, Herpotrichia, &c., or, at most, vegetate in the intercellular spaces and anchor itself to the cell-walls, e.g.

  • On the drift-sands of France, especially in the Gironde, forests have been formed mainly of this pine; the seeds, sown at first under proper shelter and protected by a thick growth of broom sown simultaneously, vegetate rapidly in the sea-sand, and the trees thus raised have, by their wind-drifted seed, covered much of the former desert of the Landes with an evergreen wood.

  • His great work, however, is the Dissertationi de fisica animale e vegetate (2 vols., 1780).

  • A prey to perpetual alarm, the people entrenched themselves behind those high walls of the oppida which Roman security had razed to the ground, but imperial impotence had restored, and where life in the middle ages was destined to vegetate in unrestful isolation.

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