"vegetize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: vegetizes [present, singular, third-person], vegetizing [participle, present], vegetized [participle, past], vegetized [past]
Etymology: From vegetate + -ize. Etymology templates: {{m|en|vegetate}} vegetate, {{af|en|-ize}} -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} vegetize (third-person singular simple present vegetizes, present participle vegetizing, simple past and past participle vegetized)
  1. (intransitive, chiefly figurative) To be in a vegetative state. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-vegetize-en-verb-ImToN~SQ
  2. (transitive, chiefly figurative) To put into a vegetative state. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-vegetize-en-verb-tXx-oqG3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: vegetate (alt: intransitive: to be in a vegetative state)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for vegetize meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)

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