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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STAGNATE, v.i. [L.]
1. To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; air stagnates in a close room.
2. To cease to move; not to be agitated. Water that stagnates in a pond or reservoir, soon becomes foul.
3. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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, stagnate] [ant: work]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (stagnated; stagnating) Etymology: Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water Date: 1661 to become or remain stagnant • stagnation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. be or become stagnant. Derivatives: stagnation n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stagnate Stag"nate, a. Stagnant. [Obs.] ``A stagnate mass of vapors.'' --Young.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stagnate Stag"nate (st[a^]g"n[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stagnated; 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stagnates, stagnating, stagnated) If something such as a business or society stagnates, it stops changing or progressing. Industrial production is stagnating... VERB: V [disapproval] • stagnation ...the stagnation of the steel industry.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Be stagnant, stand still. 2. Be dull, be inactive.

Moby Thesaurus

be a sideliner, be still, coast, constipate, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, delay, deteriorate, do nothing, drift, fust, go to pot, go to seed, hang fire, hibernate, idle, just be, languish, lie dormant, merely exist, moulder, not budge, not stir, pass the time, rest, rot, rust, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spoil, stifle, trammel, vegetate, wait and see, watch and wait