Stagnates vs Stagnated - What's the difference?
stagnates | stagnated |
(stagnate)
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 stagnates and stagnated
is that stagnates is third-person singular of stagnate while stagnated is past tense of stagnate.stagnates
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Verb
(head)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.