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stagnate
[
stag
-neyt
]
Example Sentences
Origin
stag·nate
/
ˈstæg
neɪt
/
Show Spelled
[
stag
-neyt
]
Show IPA
verb,
-nat·ed,
-nat·ing.
verb (used without object)
1.
to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
2.
to be or become stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
3.
to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing:
My mind is stagnating from too much TV.
4.
to be or become sluggish and dull:
When the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.
verb (used with object)
5.
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
-ate
1
Related forms
stag·na·tion,
noun
stag·na·to·ry
/
ˈstæg
nəˌtɔr
i
,
-ˌtoʊr
i
/
Show Spelled
[
stag
-n
uh
-tawr-ee
,
-tohr-ee
]
Show IPA
,
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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Collins
World English Dictionary
stagnate
(stæɡˈneɪt, ˈstæɡˌneɪt)
—
vb
(
intr
) to be or to become stagnant
stag'nation
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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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
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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