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stagnating, ppl. a.|ˈstægneɪtɪŋ, stægˈneɪtɪŋ|
[f. stagnate v. + -ing2.]
Becoming or remaining stagnant.
1678–9Newton Let. 28 Feb. in Birch Life Boyle (1744) 235 The cause of filtration, and of the rising of water in small glass pipes above the surface of the stagnating water they are dipped into. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 16 It gives that motion to the stagnating Blood which shakes the Artery and distends it. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 136 The..unwholsomness of stagnating and vitiated Air. 1891Nature 20 Aug. 370/2 A moory soil with stagnating and high-standing ground water. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 35 In stagnating bile the bile salts were apt to undergo decomposition.
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1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. i, Some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagnating character. 1848Gallenga Italy I. p. xxxii, The stagnating age that preceded the French revolution. 1905A. I. Shand Days of Past iii. 37 The dead-alive towns of stagnating Germany. |