Definition of "vegetates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vegetate. (verb)

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• "One vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, which is, however, sufficient for life."
• "Thus, the Cuban Communist Party General Secretary appears now -- to the eyes of possible inspectors -- as if he were a lathe operator, when everyone knows he vegetates behind a desk piled high with old yellowed documents."
• ""There is life in Paris only," he insisted, "and one vegetates elsewhere.""