vegetates

Verb

vegetate (third-person singular simple present vegetates, present participle vegetating, simple past and past participle vegetated)

1. To grow or sprout.
2. To spread abnormally.
3. (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
   • 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.1804 March 5, Charlotte Smith, letter to Sarah Rose, quoted in Judith Phillips Stanton, “Introduction to Charlotte Smith’s Letters”, in The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, Bloomington, Ind....