Vocabulary
Stagnate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of water or air) cease to flow or move; become stagnant.
Urdu meaning
جمود، بہنے سے رک جانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Pricing reforms are absent, and most of the canal infrastructure remains as it was in colonial times.As water grows scarcer, crop yields stagnate, salinisation worsens, and disputes arise.
- Nobody else in the country has borne an incremental burden of this magnitude while seeing their income stagnate and its valuebe obliterated by the most ferocious inflationary fire this country has ever seen.
- Rather than allowing the treaty to stagnate, India and Pakistan can rehabilitate it through incremental technical cooperation.
Synonyms
stop flowing, become stagnant, become trapped, stand, become foul, become stale,
Curator example
“stagnating consumer confidence”
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