Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be or become stagnant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stagnant.
- To cease to run or flow; be or become motionless; have no current.
- To cease to be brisk or active; become dull, inactive, or inert: as, business stagnates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To cease to flow; to be motionless; ; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion.
- intransitive verb To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive.
- adjective obsolete Stagnant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cease motion ,activity , orprogress ; to come torest ; to cease toadvance orchange ; to becomeidle or cease toflow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- verb stand still
- verb cause to stagnate
- verb cease to flow; stand without moving
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If there's cement there and there's no communication that means we have what we call stagnate oil trapped around that casing up to the well head.
Robert L. Cavnar: Adm. Allen Confused -- So, Now, Everybody Else Is, Too 2010
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If there's cement there and there's no communication that means we have what we call stagnate oil trapped around that casing up to the well head.
Robert L. Cavnar: Adm. Allen Confused -- So, Now, Everybody Else Is, Too 2010
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Desch expects revenues to "stagnate" next year, says Uwe Geilker, a member of Desch's executive board.
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During a hearing at a Croydon employment tribunal, Sky Movies director Ian Lewis said that he had instigated the restructure to ensure that the website did not "stagnate".
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Ian Lewis, director of Sky Movies, told Croydon employment tribunal that he ordered the restructuring to ensure that the performance of the website did not "stagnate".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It's incredibly disingenuous to say that they've been "sitting on" or letting Lemmings "stagnate":
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He said further regulations on Wall Street would "stagnate" the economy.
Latest Articles The Sun Chronicle 2010
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NUJ Release: Mass meeting at FT after only 11 volunteer for redundancy Gawker. com: Huffington has allowed citizen journalism project to 'stagnate'
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Gawker. com: Huffington has allowed citizen journalism project to 'stagnate'
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NUJ Release: Mass meeting at FT after only 11 volunteer for redundancy Gawker. com: Huffington has allowed citizen journalism project to 'stagnate'
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