1. (v. i.) To be completely passive and unthinking; to do nothing but eat and grow as vegetation\.

2. (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

3. (v. i.) To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.

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