stagnate

[stag-neyt] /ˈstæg neɪt/
verb (used without object), stagnated, stagnating.
1.
to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
2.
to be or become stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
3.
to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing:
My mind is stagnating from too much TV.
4.
to be or become sluggish and dull:
When the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.
verb (used with object), stagnated, stagnating.
5.
to make stagnant.
Origin
1660-70; < Latin stāgnātus (past participle of stāgnāre), equivalent to stāgn(um) pool of standing water + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
stagnation, noun
stagnatory
[stag-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /ˈstæg nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/ (Show IPA), adjective
unstagnating, adjective
Examples from the web for stagnate
  • The climate is not a stagnate structure, but rather a chaotic one.
  • Higher savings might bring down our trade deficit, but growth would still stagnate.
  • If the system settles into harmony and equilibrium, it will eventually stagnate and die.
  • Corporate profits are setting records, by some measures, even as wages stagnate.
  • The financial industry is likely to stagnate or shrink in the next few years.
  • But unrealistic overpricing in the current environment, he says, means properties stagnate.
  • While over regulated countries stagnate in their own bureaucracy.
  • As lower-paid workers have seen their incomes stagnate or even fall, the highest-paid workers have gotten steep raises.
  • When the downpour stops, puddles stagnate and become hatcheries for mosquitoes.
  • But the workers back home have less work to do than they would otherwise, which causes real wages to stagnate or fall.
British Dictionary definitions for stagnate

stagnate

/stæɡˈneɪt; ˈstæɡˌneɪt/
verb
1.
(intransitive) to be or to become stagnant
Derived Forms
stagnation, noun
Word Origin and History for stagnate
v.

1660s (implied in stagnation), from Latin stagnatum, stagnatus, past participle of stagnare "to stagnate," from stagnatum "standing water," from PIE root *stag- "to seep drip" (cf. Greek stazein "to ooze, drip;" see stalactite). Related: Stagnated; stagnating.