vegetate

Verb

• engage in passive relaxation
  • After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television
    

• propagate asexually
  • The bacterial growth vegetated along
    

• grow or spread abnormally
  • warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed
    

• grow like a plant
  • This fungus usually vegetates vigorously
    

• produce vegetation
  • The fields vegetate vigorously
    

• establish vegetation on
  • They vegetated the hills behind their house
    

• lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind