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vegetate

How many syllables in vegetate?

  3 syllables

Divide vegetate into syllables:   veg-e-tate
Stressed syllable in vegetate:   veg-e-tate
How to pronounce vegetate:   vej-i-teyt
How to say vegetate:

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Synonyms for vegetate


1 syllable
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2 syllables
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4 syllables
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    What rhymes with vegetate

    3 syllables
    4 syllables
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