to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.

to be passive or unthinking; to do nothing

to lie on the beach and vegetate.

Pathology . to grow, or increase by growth, as an excrescence.

verb

activate , carry out , do , die , go to seed

verb

be inert , decay , deteriorate , exist , go to pot , go to seed , hibernate , idle , languish , loaf * , pass time , stagnate , weaken , bloom , blossom , bud , burgeon , germinate , shoot , spring , swell , grow , loaf , pullulate , rusticate , sprout