Stagnate
[stæg'neɪt;'stægneɪt] or [stæɡ'net]
Definition
(verb.) cease to flow; stand without moving; 'Stagnating waters'; 'blood stagnates in the capillaries'.
(verb.) cause to stagnate; 'There are marshes that stagnate the waters'.
(verb.) stand still; 'Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
(v. t.) To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
(a.) Stagnant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Be stagnant, stand still.[2]. Be dull, be inactive.
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Examples
- I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnate--they cannot develop or appear to advantage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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