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Stagnated

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.

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stagnated

vb. (en-past of: stagnate)

Usage examples of "stagnated".

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.