I'd rather die now than vegetate for fifty more years.
Source: tatoeba (4335372)
Vegetate
//ˈvɛd͡ʒɪteɪt//
Synonyms for "vegetate" (80 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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Translations
40 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- вегетирам verb (to grow or sprout)
- вегетирам verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- раста verb (to grow or sprout)
Catalan
2 entries- vegetar verb (to grow or sprout)
- vegetar verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Esperanto
1 entries- vegeti verb (to grow or sprout)
Finnish
4 entries- itää verb (to grow or sprout)
- oleilla verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- oleskella verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- versoa verb (to grow or sprout)
French
2 entries- végéter verb (to grow or sprout)
- végéter verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Georgian
3 entries- ზრდა verb (to grow or sprout)
- უმიზნოდ ცხოვრება verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- უშინაარსოდ ცხოვრება verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
German
1 entries- vegetieren verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Hungarian
4 entries- burjánzik verb (to spread abnormally)
- nő verb (to grow or sprout)
- tengődik verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- tenyészik verb (to grow or sprout)
Ido
1 entries- vejetar verb (to grow or sprout)
Interlingua
1 entries- vegetar verb (to grow or sprout)
Italian
2 entries- vegetare verb (to grow or sprout)
- vegetare verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Polish
4 entries- rosnąć verb (to grow or sprout)
- urosnąć verb (to grow or sprout)
- wegetować verb (to grow or sprout)
- wegetować verb (to spread abnormally)
Portuguese
2 entries- vegetar verb (to grow or sprout)
- vegetar verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Russian
1 entries- прозяба́ть verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Spanish
3 entries- apalancarse verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
- vegetar verb (to grow or sprout)
- vegetar verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Swedish
2 entries- vegetera verb (to grow or sprout)
- vegetera verb (to live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Most people just vegetate.
Source: tatoeba (12371530)
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.
Source: wiktionary
I am amazed to see a young man of your appearance and talents—though, after I have been thus depreciating the latter, it is almost an affront to say any thing about those you possess—I am amazed to see you vegetating among your own oaks, as if, like them, growth were your only value."
Source: wiktionary
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