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Synonyms for vegetate

  • verb

Most common

spring up grow shoot shoot up hibernate vegetize

All synonyms

Verb

1. Spring up

spring up, grow, shoot, shoot up, put forth, bud, sprout, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon

Other

idle, hibernate, veg out informal, vegetize

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To grow or sprout.

Related words

Word family
vegetatious vegetable

Forms

Past participle
vegetated
e.g. vegetated → grown, shot, budded, sprouted…

Example sentences

  • grow "I will grow many trees here", he said to himself.
  • shoot It is difficult to shoot a bird flying in the air.
  • hibernate Arctic ground squirrels hibernate during the winter.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
vegetatefalling
growrising
shootrising
hibernatesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bud1
4 letters
grow1, idle2
5 letters
shoot1
6 letters
sprout1
8 letters
bourgeon, vegetize
9 letters
hibernate3, germinate3, pullulate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idle2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
végéter
Italiano
vegetare
Deutsch
vegetieren