stagnatingadj.
/ˈstaɡneɪtɪŋ//staɡˈneɪtɪŋ/ a. Becoming or remaining stagnant.
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the world > matter > liquid > fact of being still or not flowing > [adjective] > becoming or remaining
restagnating1663
stagnating1679
1679 I. Newton Let. 28 Feb. in Corr. (1960) II. 289 Ye cause of philtration & of ye rising of water in small glass pipes above the surface of ye stagnating water they are dipt into.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 16 It gives that motion to the stagnating Blood which shakes the Artery and distends it.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 136 The..unwholsomness of stagnating and vitiated Air.
1891 Nature 20 Aug. 370/2 A moory soil with stagnating and high-standing ground water.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 35 In stagnating bile the bile salts were apt to undergo decomposition.
b. figurative.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > characterized by inaction or inactivity
unactive1621
inergeticala1691
stagnant1749
inergetic1807
stagnating1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. i. 7 Some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagnating character.
1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present I. p. xxxii The stagnating age that preceded the French revolution.
1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past iii. 37 The dead-alive towns of stagnating Germany.
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