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vegetate

/vej-i-teyt/US // ˈvɛdʒ ɪˌteɪt //UK // (ˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪt) //

长草,长赘疣,长赘肉,长赘物

Related Words

loaf一块面包,一块面饼,一块钱,一块蛋糕hibernate冬眠,蛰伏,蛰居,休眠decay腐烂,衰变,衰落,衰减weaken削弱,弱化,减弱,削弱了idle闲置,闲置的,空闲,闲散的exist存在,存在的,存在于,存在着deteriorate恶化,变质,衰败,变差stagnate停滞不前,停滞,停滞不前的languish煎熬,苟延残喘,煎熬着,苟延残喘的shoot抛出,抛射,抛投,抛出橄榄枝blossom绽放,开花,绽放光芒,花开spring春天,春季,弹簧,春天来了swell肿胀,胀大,膨胀,胀burgeon突起,兴起,涌现,爆发germinate发芽,萌芽,萌芽状态bloom绽放,蓬勃发展,绽开,绽放的花朵bud芽,萌芽,嫩芽,芽儿go to pot下锅,下水,下锅了,下锅吧go to seed下种,播种,下种子,撒种

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    veg·e·tat·ed, veg·e·tat·ing.

    • : to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
    • : to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing: to lie on the beach and vegetate.
    • : Pathology. to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbe very passive
Forms: vegetated
Synonyms
decay腐烂,衰变,衰落,衰减deteriorate恶化,变质,衰败,变差exist存在,存在的,存在于,存在着hibernate冬眠,蛰伏,蛰居,休眠idle闲置,闲置的,空闲,闲散的languish煎熬,苟延残喘,煎熬着,苟延残喘的loaf一块面包,一块面饼,一块钱,一块蛋糕stagnate停滞不前,停滞,停滞不前的weaken削弱,弱化,减弱,削弱了be inert惰性,惰性气体,惰性强,惰性十足go to pot下锅,下水,下锅了,下锅吧go to seed下种,播种,下种子,撒种pass time消磨时间,过时间,消磨时光,逝去的时光
verbgrow, sprout
Forms: vegetated
Synonyms
bloom绽放,蓬勃发展,绽开,绽放的花朵blossom绽放,开花,绽放光芒,花开bud芽,萌芽,嫩芽,芽儿burgeon突起,兴起,涌现,爆发germinate发芽,萌芽,萌芽状态shoot抛出,抛射,抛投,抛出橄榄枝spring春天,春季,弹簧,春天来了swell肿胀,胀大,膨胀,胀

Examples

  • Inevitably some students will just text, chat, or blissfully vegetate if given more leisure.

  • “Rather than vegetate upon her small pittance,” returned the doctor briskly.

  • Humanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles.

  • No great inward commotion has ever visited them; they vegetate tamely on till they reach the grave.

  • Then Tezpi, seeing that the country began to vegetate, left his bark on the mountain of Colhuacan.

  • I've been here a month without seeing a soul; I should go mad, if I had to vegetate for another seven months.

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