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stagnate

verb as in deteriorate by lack of action

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Harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate.

In this scenario, productivity will rise, but wages may stagnate or decline.

This means that their gene pools stagnate and accumulate increasingly harmful mutations.

Yes, the economy remains sclerotic, work force participation is abysmal, and wages stagnate.

Anders Aslund says that “[t]he Russian economy was earlier set to stagnate, but now it is likely to contract.”

There is such a thing as slack tide in the affairs of men, when a crisis seems as if it would never come, and all things stagnate.

Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism.

At any rate, if such a reader cannot feel excitement here, he would utterly stagnate in any previous novel.

The course of nature seemed to stagnate, and the constellations to pause in their career, as if in mockery of my feelings.

They must not be allowed to stagnate, nor to think that because they live in an atmosphere of books they are exempt from reading.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stagnate, such as: fester, hibernate, languish, stall, stand still, and constipate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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