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to veg and relax

to veg and relax

7.5
To rest and do nothing to recover from stress or tiredness
  • phrasal verb
  • Informal
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  • She ordered some pizza, put on a movie, and decided to veg and relax for the evening.

Examples

  • It's important to give yourself time to veg and relax when life gets overwhelming.

  • After a long week, I just want to veg and relax!

  • After a busy week at work, I just want to veg and relax this weekend.

  • I love to veg and relax on weekends.

  • After a busy week at work, I just want to veg and relax this weekend.

  • It's important to give yourself time to veg and relax when life gets overwhelming.

  • She ordered some pizza, put on a movie, and decided to veg and relax for the evening.

Synonyms

to rest
vsto veg and relax
816 1.0

To stop activity to relax or sleep and get energy back

is used when doing nothing mainly to recover from stress or tiredness
to veg out
vsto veg and relax
  • Informal
2 8.1

To relax and do nothing, often sitting and watching TV

is focused on recovering from stress rather than being merely passive
to vegetate
vsto veg and relax
  • Informal
1 6.3

To spend time doing nothing or being inactive

is about doing nothing to recover from stress rather than being unproductive
to veg on the couch
vsto veg and relax
  • Informal
1 8.9

To relax and do nothing while sitting or lying on a couch

is about doing nothing to recover rather than being in a specific place

How Relaxed

to veg and relax
  • Informal
7.5
to lounge
12 2.7
to relax
∞ 1.0
to rest
816 1.0

Surface Forms

veg and relax infinitive
vegged and relaxed past
vegged and relaxed past participle
vegging and relaxing present participle
vegs and relaxes third person singular

Morphology

veg + and + relax

The phrase pairs a colloquial clipped verb 'veg' (short for 'vegetate', meaning to be idle) with the transparent verb 'relax'. Because 'veg' is informal and not a clearly documented dictionary lemma, its idle/loafing sense may not be known to a B1 learner even if they know 'relax', but the presence of 'relax' makes the overall meaning partially inferable. The combination is therefore partially predictable but relies on informal knowledge, so it is best classified as semi-transparent.

Etymology

Veg and relax comes from the word 'vegetate'. The verb veg gives the picture of someone sitting or lying like a plant, doing very little, and relax adds the idea of resting, so it means 'to spend time doing nothing and resting'.