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stagnate

[stag-neyt]

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verb (used without object)

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.

verb (used with object)

to make stagnant.

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Origin:
1660–70; < Latin stāgnātus (past participle of stāgnāre), equivalent to stāgn(um) pool of standing water + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

stag·na·tion, noun

stag·na·to·ry

[stag-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

un·stag·nat·ing, adjective

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Example Sentences

Our standard of living would soon begin to stagnate and perhaps even decline as a consequence.

Delirious with the words plopping onto his path he made youth reel where youth was meant to stagnate.

The climate is not a stagnate structure, but rather a chaotic one.

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Our standard of living would soon begin to stagnate and perhaps even decline as a consequence.

Delirious with the words plopping onto his path he made youth reel where youth was meant to stagnate.

The climate is not a stagnate structure, but rather a chaotic one.

And economies stagnate when people are too honest with themselves”.

Higher savings might bring down our trade deficit, but growth would still stagnate.

Those who are still employed have seen their wages stagnate and their pensions shrivel in the stockmarket crash.

If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium, it will eventually stagnate and die.

Corporate profits are setting records, by some measures, even as wages stagnate.

But some worry that if the gates are now closed, even briefly, the balance will be upset again and the lagoon will stagnate.

They have watched their wages stagnate and their health costs rise and their pensions disappear.

The financial industry is likely to stagnate or shrink in the next few years.

But unrealistic overpricing in the current environment, he says, means properties stagnate.

While over regulated countries stagnate in their own bureaucracy.

As lower-paid workers have seen their incomes stagnate or even fall, the highest-paid workers have gotten steep raises.

When the downpour stops, puddles stagnate and become hatcheries for mosquitoes.

There is a difference in a stagnate mess and an active mess.

But the workers back home have less work to do than they would otherwise, which causes real wages to stagnate or fall.

In the past few years these changes have started to stagnate and consolidante into a few select fields.

Certainly the entrenched civil servants who will stay and stagnate have nothing to offer.

As our youth populations stagnate or decline, so will the working-age population.

The problem is that the economy will stagnate without a functioning banking system.

These countries are often starting to stagnate until another revolution will wipe these leaders from power.

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World English Dictionary

stagnate (stæɡˈneɪt, ˈstæɡˌneɪt)

—vb
	(intr) to be or to become stagnant

stag'nation

—n

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Word Origin & History

stagnate

1665 (implied in stagnation), from L. stagnatum, stagnatus, pp. of stagnare "to stagnate," from stagnatum "standing water," from PIE base *stag- "to seep drip" (cf. Gk. stazein "to ooze, drip;" see stalactite).

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