Meanings
verbvegetablize (third-person singular simple present vegetablizes, present participle vegetablizing, simple past and past participle vegetablized)
present singular third person vegetablizes · participle present vegetablizing · participle past vegetablized · past vegetablized
- informaltransitiveTo put into a persistent vegetative state.
When it blew it would vegetablize any thinking being within the radius of a hundred miles.
2013, Jim McPherson, The Damnation Brigade, page 261 more example
The illness of hope and the depression of waiting paralyze the body progressively and vegetablize the brain slowly […]
2016, Charles Mazhar Merhebi, The ((All)) “Heaven”: Allarchist Philosophy of Modern Psychology
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