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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stagnate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stagnating economy
▪ Business here has stagnated compared with other wine-producing regions.
▪ Everyone needs new challenges. Otherwise you just stagnate.
▪ In the last ten years, the country's agricultural output has stagnated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For centuries Galactic civilization has stagnated and declined, though only a few ever realized that.
▪ Her freestyle times also began to stagnate, and those early morning workouts were becoming more a job than a joy.
▪ However, economic activity began to slow in mid-1990 and stagnated in the fourth quarter.
▪ If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot.
▪ It stifles innovation and allows policy-making to stagnate.
▪ Prices have continued to rise in the North, but to stagnate and fall in the South.
▪ This energy is called ch'i and can stagnate, become blocked or weakened, or have its flow reversed.
▪ Without this pressing at the edge of the performance envelope, both technology and productivity would stagnate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stagnate

Stagnate \Stag"nate\ (-n[asl]t), a. Stagnant. [Obs.] ``A stagnate mass of vapors.''
--Young.

Stagnate

Stagnate \Stag"nate\ (st[a^]g"n[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stagnated (-n[asl]*t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Stagnating.] [L. stagnatus, p. p. of stagnare to stagnate, make stagnant, from stagnum a piece of standing water. See Stank a pool, and cf. Stanch, v. t.]

  1. 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.

  2. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

    Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stagnate

1660s, from Latin stagnatum, stagnatus, past participle of stagnare "to stagnate," from stagnatum "standing water, pond, swamp," perhaps from a PIE root *stag- "to seep drip" (cognates: Greek stazein "to ooze, drip;" see stalactite). Figurative use by 1709. Related: Stagnated; stagnating.

Wiktionary
stagnate

vb. 1 To cease motion, activity, or progress: 2 # (lb en of water, air, etc) To cease to flow or run. 3 # (lb en of water, air, etc) To be or become foul from standing. 4 # To cease to develop, advance(,) or change; to become idle.

WordNet
stagnate
  1. v. stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy"

  2. cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters"

  3. cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries"

  4. be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" [syn: idle, laze, slug] [ant: work]

Usage examples of "stagnate".

The obvious growth of bureaucracy showed that the League was already stagnating, wandering down a wrong path that would prevent them from accomplishing anything great.

Our economy is unstable, our culture is stagnating, our ambition has been misdirected and stifled.

Of his faint respiration scarce did stir The stagnate night:--till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart.

Over the past thirty years, incomes in this central part of American society have stagnated or even fallen, with the skilled and semiskilled working classes suffering particularly badly.

Without us, your mighty six billion strong human race would still be a hundred thousand farmers stagnating between the Tigris and Euphrates.

And if help to break their stagnating hold upon Tsuranuanni could not be found here, and these Thuril cho-ja would make no alliance, where would Hokanu seek for resources to end the tyranny the magicians so jealously guarded?

After the war is fought, yield the sleek Russian That which thou canst not keep, his deserved portion Of blood, which shall not flow through streets and fields, Rivers and seas, like that which we may win, But stagnate in the veins of Christian slaves!

Our country has been stagnating at the same rate as your family has been capitalising on its wealth and power.

But if she simply let Amanda go back to stagnating in front of the television set, then Eggars might just as well have killed her that day, for she was dying by inches anyway.

For the Hinayanist, important delusions remain unchallenged, development is arrested, and they stagnate with a distorted perspective of the world.

As long as the fans were running, the fresh air flowed through the gangway fast enough to catch the highly flammable coal dust rising off the carts and blow it out the Pit 4 outtake before it could stagnate and become volatile.

Men who had been confined to cities, chained to dull and humdrum toils, stagnating in the noisy haunts, sore and sick and deflated, standing for some impossible end, when let loose in the grey, iron-walled barrens of the desert were caught by a subtle and insidious enchantment that transfigured some, made beasts of most, and mysteriously bound all.

She felt that the Republicans she knew, even Senator Grant, for whom she had campaigned, tended to be cardboard cutouts of real men, and while they served a useful and precautionary purpose, if they alone were allowed to govern, the country would stagnate.

Through these centuries glad and stern I have come to see man's progress as a blind attempt to escape from those hopeful buffoons so exposed to chance yet chance beats down like weather whatever you cover your back with we know who live a long while that the heart stagnates without abrasion and the great abrader is chance.

The request did not come up for consideration for six years, by which time Kijano, too, was dead, and nobody quite knew what Esther Kamau had done to deserve such a governmental expenditure, so the request was tabled and soon forgotten in the wake of the news that the government's austerity program had been so successful that the economy was now stagnating and experts were desperately looking for new methods of stimulating it.