stagnate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cease motion, activity, or progress:; To cease to flow or run. intransitive
    — If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
  2. To cease motion, activity, or progress:; To be or become foul from standing. intransitive
    — Air stagnates in a closed room.
  3. To cease motion, activity, or progress:; To cease to develop, advance, or change; to become idle. intransitive
    — Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
  4. To stop the flowing or running of transitive,usually
    — 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.
  5. To stop the development, advancement, or change of; to make idle. transitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Stagnant.

词形变化

stagnates present,singular,third-person stagnating participle,present stagnated participle,past stagnated past

词汇关系

衍生词
stagnant stagnation stagnative unstagnating

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
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