Stagnate

Definition: Stagnate

Stagnate

Verb

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stagnate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Note: Stagnate \Stag"nate\ (st[a^]g"n[=a]t), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Stagnated; Stagnating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stagnate

Quiescence

Stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed.

Crosswords: Stagnate

Books

• Economy of Long Island, N.Y., and what the federal government can do to help revitalize the stagnate [i.e. stagnant] economy : hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, Mineola, (reference)

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Business

This textile industry figure of $8 billion is expected to increase significantly once demand, which has been stagnate in recent years due to the recession, begins to increase again. (references)

Demand for replacement radiators is expected to stagnate, while again, the aftermarket for pistons and cylinder head gaskets is expected to decline because of a corresponding decrease in the number of engine rebuilds. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Today, the Port of Rijeka continues to stagnate and is grappling with financial difficulties. (references)

Honduras

The economic slowdown in the U.S. caused Honduras' maquila sector growth to stagnate in 2001 and employment in the sector to drop to about 115,000. (references)

The Bahamas

As a result of domestic resistance to foreign investment and high labor costs, growth can stagnate in sectors which the government wishes to diversify. (references)

Political Economy

GERMANY

In addition, unemployment rates remain high, appearing to stagnate at almost four million people unemployed nationwide. (references)

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Expression using "stagnate": allow to stagnate. Additional references.

Albanian

rri amull. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان ماء آسن, ‏جعله خامل, ‏جعله راكدا, ‏ركد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

в застой съм, застоявам. (various references)

Chinese 

停滞 (stagnant, Stagnated, Stagnating, stagnation). (various references)

Czech

stagnovat (be dull, be in the doldrums), stát (be, be up, cost, country, polity, stand, state). (various references)

Dutch

stilstaan (cease, come to a halt, halt, stop), stagneren. (various references)

Esperanto

stagni. (various references)

Faeroese

stirðna, steðga (abide, cease, come to a halt, halt, remain, stay, stay over, stop). (various references)

French

stagner. (various references)

German

stagnieren. (various references)

Greek 

λιμνάζων (stagnant), λιμνάζω, αδρανώ (be inert, vegetate), τελματώνω (bring to a deadlock). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקפוא על �"שמרים, ל�"רוך במקום (mark time, mill around). (various references)

Hungarian

stagnál (to stagnate), pang (to slack, to slacken), megreked (stick in the mud, to bog down, to get bogged, to get bogged down, to get lodged, to get stucked, to stick in, to stop in mid career). (various references)

Indonesian

mandek (get stuck, stall, stop). (various references)

Italian

subire una stasi, stagnare, ristagnare (be stagnant, lag, stand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

滞る (to be delayed, to stagnate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よどむ (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble), とど�"おる (to be delayed, to stagnate). (various references)

Korean 

침체하십시�". (various references)

Manx

loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, decayed, foul, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stale). (various references)

Pig Latin

agnatestay

Portuguese

estagnar. (various references)

Romanian

stagna (be at a standstill, languish, slacken), tânji (flag, languish, pine, slacken, wither, yearn), fi inert, fi inactiv. (various references)

Russian 

застаиваться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stagnirati, biti u zastoju. (various references)

Spanish

estancarse (become stagnant). (various references)

Swedish

stocka sig, stagnera. (various references)

Turkish

kesat olmak, durgunlaşmak (drag, languish, slacken), durgun olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

застоюватися, бути інертним. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stagnate": stagnated, stagnates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stagnate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estanguet, Saginata, stagnare, stagnat, stargate, stenate, sternata, Tsingtao. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: agnates.

-2 letters: agates, agents, agnate, ansate, satang.

-3 letters: agate, agent, angas, angst, ansae, antae, antas, antes, etnas, gates, gents, getas, gnats, nates, neats, netts, sanga, stage, stane, stang, state, tangs, taste, tates, teats, tents, testa.

-4 letters: agas, ages, anas, anes, anga, ansa, anta, ante, ants, asea, ates, east, eats, engs, etas, etna, gaen, gaes.

+1 letter: stagnated, stagnates.

+2 letters: termagants.

+3 letters: aestivating, arctangents, devastating, gestational, ingratiates, stalemating, strangulate.

+4 letters: agglutinates, battlewagons, chaetognaths, fragmentates, gnatcatchers, strangulated, strangulates, transmigrate, triangulates.

+5 letters: antigravities, augmentations, augmentatives, bantamweights, congratulates, devastatingly, extravasating, geostationary, intransigeant, magnetostatic, metastasizing, retranslating, thanatologies, transmigrated, transmigrates.