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vegetablizing

vegetablizing is the present participle and gerund of vegetablize.

Meaning of vegetablize

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

Questions about vegetablizing

What is vegetablizing the present participle and gerund of?
Vegetablizing is the present participle and gerund of vegetablize.

Words near vegetablizing in the dictionary

  1. vegetabley
  2. vegetablization
  3. vegetablize
  4. vegetablized
  5. vegetablizes
  6. vegetablizing
  7. vegetably
  8. vegetal
  9. vegetal parchment
  10. vegetal pole
  11. vegetal poles

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