be a sideliner, decay, delay, fust, hibernate, lie dormant, not stir, rust, slumber, trammel
Definitionv. stand still
Last update: August 23, 2015
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His mind has stagnated after his retirement. [Please select]
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Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism." [Please select]
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They settle down and stagnate, and by the by they degenerate into that appalling subtlety which is their ruling passion gone crooked. [Please select]
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Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnatethey cannot develop or appear to advantage. [Please select]
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But when a man is too active to stagnate--there you are. [Please select]
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Youth, in all circumstances, is cream, and only turns into scum when allowed to stagnate or run to waste. [Please select]
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“Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism. [Please select]
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Gradually, however, its energies became exhausted, till at last, completely overwhelmed, it stopped, an immovable projection stagnated to death-like rigidity. [Please select]
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