stagnate
verb/ˈstæɡneɪt/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
- borrowed from stāgnātus
Definitions
To cease motion, activity, or progress
To cease motion, activity, or progress:
- If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
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.
To stop the development, advancement, or change of
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.
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Stagnant.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for stagnate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA