stagnate

verb
/ˈstæɡneɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).

  1. borrowed from stāgnātus

Definitions

  1. To cease motion, activity, or progress

    To cease motion, activity, or progress:

    • If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Stagnant.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA