stagnatev.

Brit.

/staɡˈneɪt/,

/ˈstaɡneɪt/, U.S.

/ˈstæɡˌneɪt/

Etymology: < Latin stagnāt- participial stem of stagnāre to stagnate, to be overflowed, < stagnum pool: see -ate suffix³.

1. intransitive. To be or become stagnant; to cease to flow, to stand without motion or current.

a. of water, air, (the ice of) a glacier or ice sheet, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > be still or cease flowing [verb (intransitive)]

standOE

stint1340

stanchc1400

restagnate1651

stagnate1669

the world > the earth > water > ice > turn to ice [verb (intransitive)] > stagnate

stagnate1924

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 326 Motion keeps water from stagnating.

1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iii. 71 Their unexercised Reason will..like standing water, stagnate and gather mire.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece vi. 453 We past by a Fountain, that presently seems to stagnate into the Lake of Marathon.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 69 The Air that stagnated in the Shaft.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 20 The water..stagnates and corrupts during those months in which the rains intermit.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 84 Wherever air stagnates long, it becomes unwholesome.

1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno ix. 111 Where Rhone stagnates on the plains of Arles.

a1845 R. H. Barham House-warming!! in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 303 The valley, Where stagnates Fleet Ditch.

1924 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 251. 159 If any general cause were to operate to deprive the whole glacier of a part of its pressure head, this part would be more likely to respond by stagnating.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1045/1 A variety of landforms have been interpreted as evidence that ice stagnated and melted over large areas during its retreat from various parts of Europe and North America.

in extended use.1783 G. Crabbe Village i. 18 Nor wipes the tear that stagnates in his eyes.1866 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 137 The tea stagnating on a small table.

b. of the blood or other liquids of the body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered pulse or circulation > of pulse or circulation: be disordered [verb (intransitive)] > of blood: stop

settle1599

stagnatea1687

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > have urinary disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of urine: stagnate

stagnate1772

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > have disordered secretion [verb (intransitive)] > disordered bile

stagnate1845

a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 88 I am fifty Winters old, Bloud then stagnates and grows cold.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Stagnate, to lie still after such a manner, to want a free Course, as the Blood does, when grown too thick.

1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xi. 155 By stagnating in the bladder it [urine] becomes thicker.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 42 Nursing their revengeful passions just to keep their blood from stagnating.

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 281 When it..causes the bile to stagnate in it, by narrowing the cystic or the common duct.

1879 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) i. iv. 125 The blood tends to accumulate and to stagnate [1876 become stagnant] in the capillaries and veins.

a. figurative and in figurative context.

ΚΠ

1709 Tatler No. 68 Without the Impulse to Fame and Reputation, our Industry would stagnate.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §21. 38 Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate.

1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales (ed. 2) I. 312 The stream of life now seemed to stagnate.

a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 107 Its very courage stagnates to a vice.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxvii. 44 I envy not..The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth.

1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 16 Dialects may stagnate for centuries, or may rapidly change, according to circumstances.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 517 The faith of the Church would have stagnated.

b. Of a person or people: To subside into a stagnant mode of existence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > be listless or lethargic [verb (intransitive)]

slumberc1380

dream1548

vegetate1740

moon1763

stagnate1774

maunder1775

Dianize1834

veg1979

1774 N. Nicholls Let. 27 Aug. in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 175 I wish at my return very much to run down to you before I sit down to stagnate on the bank of my lake.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Pref. p. xiv Better be hurried forward for a season on the wings of the tempest, than stagnate in a deathlike calm.

1878 H. P. Liddon in J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. H. P. Liddon (1904) viii. 222 Mahommedanism condemns the races which it curses to stagnate in evil.

1911 R. R. Marett Anthropol. iv. 120 The net result was that, despite a very fair environment..man [in Australia] on the whole stagnated.

c. nonce-uses. To be delayed in transit; to pass sluggishly along.

ΚΠ

1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 255 I have sometimes suspected that my letters stagnate in the post-offices.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 401 [The procession] slow; stagnating along, like a shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, Like Babel and Bedlam.

a. transitive. To cause to be or become stagnant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > cause to be or become still or without flow [verb (transitive)]

stagnate1693

stagnize1694

1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. iv. 134 Whence gushed out an Inundation of Water, that is here stagnated, and become a filthy Lake.

1708 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Dec. The Blood is in a Manner stagnated.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 9 The Country being so very woody that the Air must needs be stagnated.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 3 We have neither bogs nor marshes to stagnate our waters.

1801 R. Southey Let. 28 Mar. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 130 The one river with its rush almost stagnates the other.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 476 In which blood..remaining stagnated in its proper vessels, did not coagulate.

1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 98 Cruel god, Desist! or my offended mistress' nod Will stagnate all thy fountains.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 68 The power which these bodies have of stopping the transmission of heat depends on the air which is stagnated in their vacuities.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > pass (time) listlessly or lethargically [verb (transitive)] > make listless or lethargic

stupefy?a1425

lethargy1608

doze1617

lethargize1633

dozzlea1670

somniate1719

stagnate1725

torpedoa1772

torpefy1808

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vii. 85 His credit, the life and blood of his trade, is stagnated.

1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 331 I am so weak-handed here, that I could not, without stagnating the public works, spare a man to these people's assistance.

1906 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 4/7 There is a tendency for age to stagnate a man's initiative, invention and energy.

4. To astonish, stagger. dialect and U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy

awhapec1300

stonyc1330

astony1340

astonec1374

mazec1390

stounda1400

stuna1400

to-stony?a1400

stounc1400

clumsec1440

overmusec1460

stonish1488

strike1533

dazzle1561

stoyne1563

stupefy1577

stupefact1583

obstupefy1611

astound1637

petrify1667

flabbergast1773

stagnatea1798

stama1800

swarf1813

boggle1835

razzle-dazzle1886

to knock sideways1890

stupend1900

gobsmack1987

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)]

gloppena1250

abavea1400

ferlya1400

forferlya1400

supprisec1405

stonish1488

surprend1549

stagger1556

thunderbolta1586

admire1598

startle1598

thunderstrike1613

siderate1623

dumbfound1653

surprise1655

stammer1656

strange1657

astartlea1680

dumbfounder1710

knock1715

to take aback1751

flabbergast1773

to take back1796

stagnate1829

to put aback1833

to make (a person) sit up1878

to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884

transmogrify1887

rock1947

to flip out1964

a1798 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 395 The most romantic imagination here finds itself surprized and stagnated.

1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Stagnate, to astonish. ‘I'll stagnate her wi' my story’.

1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 198 It was Bob's turn to be stagnated now.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stagnate
释义	† stagnateadj. Etymology: < Latin stagnātus: see stagnate v. and -ate suffix². Obsolete. = stagnant adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > [adjective] stillOE standingOE settled1600 commorant1610 restagnant1651 stagnant1669 stagnated1703 stagnate1706 1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino v. 13 The stagnate Vapours of the Flood. 1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino v. 30 When..the Stagnate Brain Resolves on Death, our Application's vain. 1731 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Agricola in Wks. II. 360 This Sea [the Orkneys] they report to be slow and stagnate. 1761 Ann. Reg., Charac. 41/1 The air becomes grosser and grosser until it becomes torpid and stagnate. 1794 M. Wollstonecraft Hist. & Moral View of Origin & Progress French Revol. 520 Lazy friars are driven out of their cells as stagnate bodies that corrupt society. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 683 The ancient port of Troas, a small circular basin, half choked up and stagnate. 1818 Ann. Reg., Chron. 570 A large pool of stagnate water. a1845 T. Hood Lamia vii, in W. Jerdan Autobiogr. (1852) I. 290 Such a calm, As the shipmate curses on the stagnate sea Under the torrid zone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). stagnatev. Brit. /staɡˈneɪt/, /ˈstaɡneɪt/, U.S. /ˈstæɡˌneɪt/ Etymology: < Latin stagnāt- participial stem of stagnāre to stagnate, to be overflowed, < stagnum pool: see -ate suffix³. 1. intransitive. To be or become stagnant; to cease to flow, to stand without motion or current. a. of water, air, (the ice of) a glacier or ice sheet, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > be still or cease flowing [verb (intransitive)] standOE stint1340 stanchc1400 restagnate1651 stagnate1669 the world > the earth > water > ice > turn to ice [verb (intransitive)] > stagnate stagnate1924 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 326 Motion keeps water from stagnating. 1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iii. 71 Their unexercised Reason will..like standing water, stagnate and gather mire. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece vi. 453 We past by a Fountain, that presently seems to stagnate into the Lake of Marathon. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 69 The Air that stagnated in the Shaft. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 20 The water..stagnates and corrupts during those months in which the rains intermit. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 84 Wherever air stagnates long, it becomes unwholesome. 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno ix. 111 Where Rhone stagnates on the plains of Arles. a1845 R. H. Barham House-warming!! in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 303 The valley, Where stagnates Fleet Ditch. 1924 Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 251. 159 If any general cause were to operate to deprive the whole glacier of a part of its pressure head, this part would be more likely to respond by stagnating. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1045/1 A variety of landforms have been interpreted as evidence that ice stagnated and melted over large areas during its retreat from various parts of Europe and North America. in extended use.1783 G. Crabbe Village i. 18 Nor wipes the tear that stagnates in his eyes.1866 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 137 The tea stagnating on a small table. b. of the blood or other liquids of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered pulse or circulation > of pulse or circulation: be disordered [verb (intransitive)] > of blood: stop settle1599 stagnatea1687 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > have urinary disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of urine: stagnate stagnate1772 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > have disordered secretion [verb (intransitive)] > disordered bile stagnate1845 a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 88 I am fifty Winters old, Bloud then stagnates and grows cold. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Stagnate, to lie still after such a manner, to want a free Course, as the Blood does, when grown too thick. 1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xi. 155 By stagnating in the bladder it [urine] becomes thicker. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 42 Nursing their revengeful passions just to keep their blood from stagnating. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 281 When it..causes the bile to stagnate in it, by narrowing the cystic or the common duct. 1879 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) i. iv. 125 The blood tends to accumulate and to stagnate [1876 become stagnant] in the capillaries and veins. 2. a. figurative and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1709 Tatler No. 68 Without the Impulse to Fame and Reputation, our Industry would stagnate. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §21. 38 Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. 1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales (ed. 2) I. 312 The stream of life now seemed to stagnate. a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 107 Its very courage stagnates to a vice. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxvii. 44 I envy not..The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth. 1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 16 Dialects may stagnate for centuries, or may rapidly change, according to circumstances. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 517 The faith of the Church would have stagnated. b. Of a person or people: To subside into a stagnant mode of existence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > be listless or lethargic [verb (intransitive)] slumberc1380 dream1548 vegetate1740 moon1763 stagnate1774 maunder1775 Dianize1834 veg1979 1774 N. Nicholls Let. 27 Aug. in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 175 I wish at my return very much to run down to you before I sit down to stagnate on the bank of my lake. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. Pref. p. xiv Better be hurried forward for a season on the wings of the tempest, than stagnate in a deathlike calm. 1878 H. P. Liddon in J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. H. P. Liddon (1904) viii. 222 Mahommedanism condemns the races which it curses to stagnate in evil. 1911 R. R. Marett Anthropol. iv. 120 The net result was that, despite a very fair environment..man [in Australia] on the whole stagnated. c. nonce-uses. To be delayed in transit; to pass sluggishly along. ΚΠ 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 255 I have sometimes suspected that my letters stagnate in the post-offices. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 401 [The procession] slow; stagnating along, like a shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, Like Babel and Bedlam. 3. a. transitive. To cause to be or become stagnant. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > cause to be or become still or without flow [verb (transitive)] stagnate1693 stagnize1694 1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. iv. 134 Whence gushed out an Inundation of Water, that is here stagnated, and become a filthy Lake. 1708 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Dec. The Blood is in a Manner stagnated. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 9 The Country being so very woody that the Air must needs be stagnated. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 3 We have neither bogs nor marshes to stagnate our waters. 1801 R. Southey Let. 28 Mar. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 130 The one river with its rush almost stagnates the other. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 476 In which blood..remaining stagnated in its proper vessels, did not coagulate. 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 98 Cruel god, Desist! or my offended mistress' nod Will stagnate all thy fountains. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 68 The power which these bodies have of stopping the transmission of heat depends on the air which is stagnated in their vacuities. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > pass (time) listlessly or lethargically [verb (transitive)] > make listless or lethargic stupefy?a1425 lethargy1608 doze1617 lethargize1633 dozzlea1670 somniate1719 stagnate1725 torpedoa1772 torpefy1808 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vii. 85 His credit, the life and blood of his trade, is stagnated. 1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 331 I am so weak-handed here, that I could not, without stagnating the public works, spare a man to these people's assistance. 1906 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 4/7 There is a tendency for age to stagnate a man's initiative, invention and energy. 4. To astonish, stagger. dialect and U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy awhapec1300 stonyc1330 astony1340 astonec1374 mazec1390 stounda1400 stuna1400 to-stony?a1400 stounc1400 clumsec1440 overmusec1460 stonish1488 strike1533 dazzle1561 stoyne1563 stupefy1577 stupefact1583 obstupefy1611 astound1637 petrify1667 flabbergast1773 stagnatea1798 stama1800 swarf1813 boggle1835 razzle-dazzle1886 to knock sideways1890 stupend1900 gobsmack1987 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] gloppena1250 abavea1400 ferlya1400 forferlya1400 supprisec1405 stonish1488 surprend1549 stagger1556 thunderbolta1586 admire1598 startle1598 thunderstrike1613 siderate1623 dumbfound1653 surprise1655 stammer1656 strange1657 astartlea1680 dumbfounder1710 knock1715 to take aback1751 flabbergast1773 to take back1796 stagnate1829 to put aback1833 to make (a person) sit up1878 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884 transmogrify1887 rock1947 to flip out1964 a1798 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 395 The most romantic imagination here finds itself surprized and stagnated. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Stagnate, to astonish. ‘I'll stagnate her wi' my story’. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 198 It was Bob's turn to be stagnated now. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1706v.1669
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† stagnateadj.

stagnatev.