vegetablize

English

Etymology

vegetable +‎ -ize

Verb

vegetablize (third-person singular simple present vegetablizes, present participle vegetablizing, simple past and past participle vegetablized)

1. (transitive, informal) To put into a persistent vegetative state.
   • 2013, Jim McPherson, The Damnation Brigade, page 26:

     When it blew it would vegetablize any thinking being within the radius of a hundred miles.

   • 2016, Charles Mazhar Merhebi, The ((All)) “Heaven”: Allarchist Philosophy of Modern Psychology:

     The illness of hope and the depression of waiting paralyze the body progressively and vegetablize the brain slowly […]