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Definition of Stagnating
1. stagnate [v] - See also: stagnate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagnating
Literary usage of Stagnating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inequality of Human Races by Arthur Gobineau (1915)
"CHAPTER VI NATIONS, WHETHER PROGRESSING OR stagnating, ARE INDEPENDENT OF THE
REGIONS IN WHICH THEY LIVE I MUST now consider whether the development of ..."
2. The Economy of High Wages: An Inquiry Into the Cause of High Wages and Their by Jacob Schoenhof, Thomas Francis Bayard (1892)
"Low Wages, stagnating Causes.—Improvement in Machinery more Profitable in High-wage
Countries.—Peasant and House Industries.—A Picture of a Home-market ..."
3. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1904)
"The ground underneath tht houses was invariably covered with filth of all kinds,
human excrement included, and often showed pools of stagnating malodorous ..."
4. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1857)
"... and as these are not of sufficient capacity to store the sudden influx of
storm-water, in addition to the sewage already stagnating in them, ..."
5. Health and Disease: A Book for the People by William Whitty Hall (1859)
"... the thirst—which also dilutes the heavy, stagnating blood—and rest to recover
strength, rest for the body, rest for the brain, and rest for the stomach. ..."
6. A New French and English Dictionary in Two Parts by William Cobbett (1833)
"... stagnating, noi dam la portât, to live in vice or idleness. flowing. ...
the stagnating of matters in the body. HIM-*mii, sf. a little crust of bread. ..."
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