say it: STAG-nayt
stagnate is a verb meaning "stand still". It carries 4 recorded senses.
be idle; exist in a changeless situation
“The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”
“He slugged in bed all morning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stagnate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.