Verb (used without object), : to lie on the beach and vegetate.    From Dictionary.com. 

I would probably be in bed, doped up and vegetating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navel staring] Reference

I suppose I could start vegetating again with the TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want Or Need?] Reference

So, four years later, we were still vegetating in Kent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Pharaohs]

The one dealing with early vegetating and frost damage to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

I sat vegetating, living a life without sense or purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Mission Moluk]

He and his fellow sufferers are vegetating away to shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spoor of the Antis]

At 45°, the seed would rot in the ground, without vegetating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

We had been in Brazil now nearly two years, vegetating between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

A hippopotamus slumps like a lobotomy in the vegetating stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Roadside Attraction]

They had been vegetating for longer than he cared to contemplate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amaryllis] Reference

You should be at home placidly vegetating as a banker's clerk or -- or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

He had been vegetating on the ward for so long that he'd caught me off guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roses are Red]

The pulse of a free life, where men lived instead of vegetating, was in his veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference

MR. STOKE: I would say that one good solution is to select late vegetating varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

We should encourage everyone to watch for any late vegetating kinds for trial in the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

You are a man, Stephen - and a strong man seeks better things than mere timeless vegetating!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

I'm hoping that the time vegetating in front of the telly will rejuvenate her enough to go out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aren't you brave?] Reference

But I think it's a much better use of my time than sitting vegetating in front of the television!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekly Geeks - Passions] Reference

"Yes, though rising early is a relic of serfdom, still it is better than vegetating here all day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

The plan aims to set forth all necessary future operational measures, including re-vegetating the site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference

L-8, all these seedlings are later vegetating than the seed parents and any of the suspect pollen parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

In those glowing climes the Banyan was regarded as the tree of trees, and the mighty centre of vegetating life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

During the European Dark Ages, were we really just vegetating like starving monkeys and baboons outside history?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbus' 'discovery' of America: the greatest hoax of all times?] Reference

Well, staying home vegetating has been somewhat nice this week since the weather was not conducive to anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

I admit, being at a fabulous party somewhere with my peeps might have been nice, but just vegetating was decent too.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

The heat, lasting for several days, reached a high of 80.4 degrees and, as a result, the McKinster tree started vegetating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

They will keep but two years; and, even when newly grown, sometimes remain in the ground four or five weeks before vegetating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

I imported from the Mauritius some years ago, cost me, on account of many of them not vegetating, at the rate of £30 per acre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Since the bells rang in my marriage morn, I have dozed away life like a lump of clay, vegetating like a peasant, sleeping like a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Maybe he spent his forty-two months of vegetating driving against those blocks until he partially broke them down and could speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference

But it was impossible that she should continue vegetating mentally upon a farm with a husband who was a fool, a drunkard, and a miser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

The seventeen replies received included eight problems as follows: (1) brooming disease of walnut; (2) early vegetating particularly of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

MR. RUSH: In connection with Mr. Smith's remarks as to late vegetating varieties, it may be that this feature is not altogether desirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

Partnerships have been signed in the West Rand resulting in vegetating exhausted mines in order to address the mine dust pollution problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference