Germinate vs Stagnate - What's the difference?
germinate | stagnate |
To sprout or produce buds.
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To cause to grow.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 To cease motion, activity, or progress:
# To cease to flow or run.
# To be or become foul from standing.
# To cease to develop, advance or change; to become idle.
#* (rfdate), Walter Scott:
#* 2003 , Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom (ISBN 1591606691), page 434:
As verbs the difference between germinate and stagnate
is that germinate is to sprout or produce buds while stagnate is to cease motion, activity, or progress.germinate
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Verb
- (Francis Bacon)
citation, passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}
Anagrams
* ----stagnate
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Verb
(en-verb)- If the water stagnates , algae will grow.
- Air stagnates in a closed room.
- Ready-witted tenderness never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
- Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating , thus promoting mental growth into old age.