vegetablize en · VERB
Etymology
From vegetable + -ize.
Meanings
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(informal, transitive) To 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 26: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vegetablizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| vegetablized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| vegetablized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| vegetablizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |