Definition of Stagnate

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Stagnate

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.

To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.

Stagnant.

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Stagnate Quotations

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
Peter Mandelson

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
John L. Phillips

Stagnate Translations

stagnate in Dutch is stilstaan, stagneren
stagnate in French is stagner, stagnons, stagnent, stagnez
stagnate in German is stagniere, stagnieren
stagnate in Spanish is estancarse
stagnate in Swedish is stocka sig, stagnera

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