1. Engage in passive relaxation
   "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television";
   - veg out [informal], veg [informal]
    
2. Produce vegetation
   "The fields vegetate vigorously"
    
3. Establish vegetation on
   "They vegetated the hills behind their house"
    
4. Grow like a plant
   "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"
    
5. Grow or spread abnormally
   "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"
    
6. (biology) propagate asexually
   "The bacterial growth vegetated along"

Derived forms: vegetated, vegetates, vegetating

Type of: decompress, grow, loosen up, propagate, relax, slow down, take it easy, unbend, unwind