stagnate

Speech parts

1. stagnate - Adjective

2. stagnate - Verb

Meaning

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.

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

Stagnant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slug idle laze rest fall slip hibernate trammel stop stand decline drop decay delay collapse
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Antonyms

bloom work convert change moult burgeon
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Hypernyms

change be

Hyponyms

moon daydream loaf fuck off bum loll

Derivatives

stagnated stagnating

Anagrams

Sangatte

Examples

And any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that cripple the souls-the economic conditions that stagnate the soul and the city governments that may damn the soul-is a dry, dead, do-nothing religion in need of new blood. Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it. John Buchan

To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers. Fernando Pessoa

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos. Peter Mandelson

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression. John L. Phillips

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Close letter words and terms

stagnant ice stagnant loop syndrome stagnantly stagnation stagnation point stagnational