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stagnate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | idle, laze, slug |
| Has types | waste one's time, arse around, moon around, moon on, ride the bench, warm the bench, arse about, bum, bum about, bum around, daydream, frig around, fuck off, lie about, lie around, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, moon |
| Derivation | stagnation, stagnancy |
The old man sat and stagnated on his porch.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | change |
| Derivation | stagnancy, stagnant, stagnation |
There are marshes that stagnate the waters.
stagnate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | be |
| Derivation | stagnancy, stagnant, stagnation |
blood stagnates in the capillaries.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | be |
| Derivation | stagnant, stagnation |
Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy.
Examples of stagnate
stagnate
He stood still this time, for the most part, but he hasn't let himself stagnate.
From the stltoday.com
In that event, GDP would most probably stagnate or even shrink, year after year.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The middle class and the working class are seeing their incomes stagnate or fall.
From the dailyherald.com
If you keep doing work that is already set, you begin to stagnate a little bit.
From the sltrib.com
If we stagnate and complain and fearmonger long enough time will come back to us.
From the economist.com
Got to change reference points for the newest idea if not you stagnate and die.
From the newscientist.com
If military arrangements provide its only bond, it will sooner or later stagnate.
From the time.com
If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate.
From the time.com
Business is becoming restive, fearing that the economy will continue to stagnate.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- Stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy"
- Cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters"
- Cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries"
- Idle: be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
- (stagnation) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation"
- (stagnation) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
- (Stagnation (Ussr)) Period of stagnation, also known as Brezhnevian Stagnation (or Brezhnev stagnation), the Stagnation Period, or the Era of Stagnation, refers to a period of economic stagnation under Leonid Brezhnev in the history of the Soviet Union that started in the mid-1970s.
- To cease motion, activity, or progress; to come to rest; to cease to advance or change; to become idle or cease to flow
- (stagnating) the stage in a relationship that finds communication between the parties at a standstill.
