stagnate
/ˈstæɡneɪt/
stagnate verb: to cease to flow or run.
Verb
stagnate (third-person singular simple present stagnates, present participle stagnating, simple past and past participle stagnated)
- To cease to flow or run.
- If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
- To be or become foul from standing.
- Air stagnates in a closed room.
- Synonyms:
- stand
- To cease to develop, advance, or change; to become idle.
- Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock
- Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age.2003, Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom, →ISBN, page 434
- To stop the flowing or running of
- These poor people cannot go to mountains in the later summer and the early autumn to escape the miasm, and no legislative body has any moral right by undertaking improvements, to stagnate the river marshes.1894 August 31, “Report of the Board of Visitors of the Government Hospital for the Insane”, in 1894 Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior
- To stop the development, advancement, or change of; to make idle.
- The myths and values of history have determined our consciousness, have destroyed our wholeness, Mind, experienced as separate from and superior to the body has all but closed our senses and ultimately stagnated the mind.1971, Jearld F. Moldenhauer, “Sweeping Statements”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 16
Adjective
stagnate
stagnate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
stagnate in Tamil
- (intransitive) to cease activity
- தேங்கு tēṅku
stagnate in Bengali
- স্থবির হওয়া, গতিহীন হওয়া
stagnate in Malayalam
- (intransitive) to cease activity
- കെട്ടിക്കിടക്കുക keṭṭikkiṭakkuka
stagnate in Kannada
- ನಿಂತಲ್ಲಿರು, ಹರಿಯದಿರು, ಕೊಳೆಯತೊಡಗು, ಒಂದೆಡೆ ನಿಲ್ಲು, ನಿಂತುಹೋಗು, ಪ್ರವಹಿಸದೆ ಇರು
More languagesFewer languages
- stagnate in Persian
- راکد شدن râked šodan
Examples of stagnate in a sentence
- I must make the most of us both being vicenarians before you stagnate.
- Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones.
- There was no ulcer in the lower pouch where the hyperconcentrated fluid became stagnated.
Synonyms of stagnate
Forms of stagnate
| third-person singular present | stagnates |
|---|---|
| present participle | stagnating |
| past participle | stagnated |
| past | stagnated |
Origin of stagnate
Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
Words formed from stagnate
Words that rhyme with stagnate
Questions about stagnate
- What does stagnate mean?
- Stagnate means to cease to flow or run.
- What is stagnate in Tamil?
- Stagnate in Tamil is தேங்கு (tēṅku). See Stagnate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stagnate?
- Stagnate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stagnate?
- Stagnate is pronounced /ˈstæɡneɪt/.
- What is the past tense of stagnate?
- The past tense of stagnate is stagnated.
Words near stagnate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stagnate (page history and authors); stagnate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stagnate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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