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vegetablize

vegetablize verb: to put into a persistent vegetative state.

Verb

vegetablize (third-person singular simple present vegetablizes, present participle vegetablizing, simple past and past participle vegetablized)

  1. (informal, transitive) To put into a persistent vegetative state.
    • When it blew it would vegetablize any thinking being within the radius of a hundred miles.2013, Jim McPherson, The Damnation Brigade, page 26
    • The illness of hope and the depression of waiting paralyze the body progressively and vegetablize the brain slowly […]2016, Charles Mazhar Merhebi, The ((All)) “Heaven”: Allarchist Philosophy of Modern Psychology

Forms of vegetablize

third-person singular presentvegetablizes
present participlevegetablizing
past participlevegetablized
pastvegetablized

Origin of vegetablize

From vegetable + -ize.

Questions about vegetablize

What does vegetablize mean?
Vegetablize means to put into a persistent vegetative state.
What part of speech is vegetablize?
Vegetablize is a verb.
What is the past tense of vegetablize?
The past tense of vegetablize is vegetablized.

Words near vegetablize in the dictionary

  1. vegetable-based
  2. vegetablelike
  3. vegetables
  4. vegetabley
  5. vegetablization
  6. vegetablize
  7. vegetablized
  8. vegetablizes
  9. vegetablizing
  10. vegetably
  11. vegetal

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