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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stagnate \Stag"nate\ (st[a^]g"n[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Stagnated}; p. pr & vb n. {Stagnating}.] [L. stagnatus p.
p. of stagnare to stagnate, make stagnant, from stagnum a
piece of standing water. See {Stank} a pool, and cf
{Stanch}, v. t.]
1. 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
2. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or
inactive; as commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in
vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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