stagnate
to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
to be or become stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing: My mind is stagnating from too much TV.
to be or become sluggish and dull: When the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.
Origin of stagnate
1Other words from stagnate
- stag·na·tion, noun
- stag·na·to·ry [stag-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ˈstæg nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
- un·stag·nat·ing, adjective
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How to use stagnate in a sentence
“Revelations” is a good game, but it’s the first time we see the series stagnate during the annual release schedule of the franchise.
All the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games, ranked | Elise Favis, Gene Park | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostYou could probably use that as a symbol for people wanting to know what the future holds and then it being stagnated.
‘Two very, very different companies’: Why CNN’s Great Big Story failed to survive | Tim Peterson | November 2, 2020 | DigidayMeanwhile, the design of the physical monitors themselves stagnates.
Covid-19 has led to a worrisome uptick in the use of electronic ankle monitors | Amy Nordrum | October 8, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn general, most teams and players don’t reach for this scalpel so soon and so often, knowing it takes a half-court offense out of its normal rhythm and might result in a series of isolation chances that stagnates everybody else.
Many public school teachers’ wages stagnated and their pension benefits were cut.
Failure To Shore Up State Budgets May Hit Women’s Wallets Especially Hard | LGBTQ-Editor | September 29, 2020 | No Straight News
Antisubmarine warfare (ASW) has not stagnated, but it shows signs of disarray.
Average weekly earnings have gone up, even as employment has stagnated.
The Slow, Grinding Repair of the American Labor Market | Megan McArdle | May 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThroughout the capitalist world, economies had faltered and stagnated in the 1970s.
We Need a Visionary Like Margaret Thatcher for our 21st Century Challenges | David Frum | April 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere have been plenty of periods when development has stagnated or even fallen for centuries at a stretch.
Incomes have generally stagnated over the last several years.
Floating Petri Dish Aside, Triumph Won’t Sink Carnival | Daniel Gross | February 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe young bull stood for a minute or two, as his father said, "right down stagnated," and then began to plunge and kick.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-GouldWithout curiosity and scepticism, human thought would have long since stagnated and the world remained sunk in ignorance.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value | Arthur Glyn LeonardThere he paused, and gazed in anxious meditation upon the black and heavy liquid that stagnated beneath.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II | VariousThe conversation had all along been of the languidest, but at this moment it happened to have stagnated altogether.
Great Ghost Stories | VariousHence, when friendship stagnated, when love lapsed into the inevitable mediocrity and torpor, he fretted or fled.
Wisconsin in Story and Song; | Various
British Dictionary definitions for stagnate
/ (stæɡˈneɪt, ˈstæɡˌneɪt) /
(intr) to be or to become stagnant
Derived forms of stagnate
- stagnation, noun
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