different between vegetate vs revegetate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vegetatum, past participle of vegeto (“I enliven, I arouse”)

Verb

vegetate (third-person singular simple present vegetates, present participle vegetating, simple past and past participle vegetated)

1. (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
2. (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
3. (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.

Related terms

• vegetable

Translations

Esperanto

Adverb

vegetate

1. present adverbial passive participle of vegeti

Italian

Verb

vegetate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vegetare
2. second-person plural imperative of vegetare
3. feminine plural of vegetato

Latin

Verb

veget?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of veget?

English

Etymology

From re- +? vegetate.

Verb

revegetate (third-person singular simple present revegetates, present participle revegetating, simple past and past participle revegetated)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow again (of a plant, leaf etc.). [17th–19th c.]
   • 1790, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 18 March:

     Forsyth's Power real or imaginary of healing wounded Plants, and making them revegetate is a strange Thing:—more strange than true I fancy […] .

2. (transitive, chiefly ecology) To produce new vegetation on (a barren ground or area); to colonize (barren ground). [from 19th c.]
3. (intransitive, of barren ground) To become recolonized by plants. [from 20th c.]