Stagnate Definition

stăgnāt
stagnated, stagnates, stagnating
verb
stagnated, stagnates, stagnating
To be or become stagnant.
Webster's New World
To make stagnant.
Webster's New World
To stagnate is to sit still or stop moving.
An example of stagnate is for water to not move in a pond.
An example of stagnate is for someone's career to stop moving forward.
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To cease motion, activity, or progress; to come to rest; to cease to advance or change; to become idle or cease to flow.

If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
Air stagnates in a closed room.
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Origin of Stagnate

  • Latin stāgnāre stāgnāt- from stāgnum swamp

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stagnate Sentence Examples

  • Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

  • All the sluices should be substantially built at first with stones and mortar, to prevent the leakage of water; for, should water from a leak be permitted to find its way into the meadow, that portion of it will stagnate and produce coarse grasses.

  • Security, or the illusion of security, leads them to stagnate in a relationship.

  • My feeling is that prices will dip and then stagnate for 5-10 years.

  • Urine will stagnate there and eventually cause infection.

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