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vegetative

[vej-i-tey-tiv] / ˈvɛdʒ ɪˌteɪ tɪv /


ADJECTIVE
herbal
Synonyms


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Before his resignation, the Democrat chairman said last week Yoon would be a "vegetative president" who would struggle to run the government with the ruling party occupying just 105 seats.

From Reuters

You need to be patient about spring germination, but after three weeks of complete vegetative inactivity, I decided this was another bust.

From Washington Post

“The victim had been in a vegetative state since the age of three,” Judge Stephen Hopkins wrote.

From Seattle Times

Brain death also differs from a persistent vegetative state, where a patient is permanently unconscious but able to breathe without assistance.

From Salon

One unnamed source at the time claimed he was in a "vegetative state."

From Fox News