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stagnate   (TTS Sound)

The verb stagnate has 4 senses

• stagnate -- (stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy")


• stagnate -- (cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters")


• stagnate -- (cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries")


• idle, laze, slug, stagnate -- (be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning")