stagnate
/ˈstæɡneɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "If the water stagnates, algae will grow."
- "Air stagnates in a closed room."
- "Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope."
- "Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age."
- "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."
- "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."