English-Portuguese translations for stagnate

• estagnar
  As vossas economias sofreriam uma contracção e as vossas sociedades poderiam estagnar.Your economies would shrink and your societies could stagnate.
  O desemprego aumentará e o nosso desempenho económico estagnará. Unemployment will rise, and our economic performance will stagnate.
  As sociedades que tentaram praticar a exclusão e fechar as portas aos estrangeiros tenderam a estagnar e a atrofiar-se. Those societies that have tried to be exclusive and to keep out everybody else have tended to stagnate and atrophy.

Definition of stagnate

• To cease motion, activity, or progress

Examples

• If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
• Air stagnates in a closed room.

Related words

• stagnation
• stagnant
• stagnancy
• stagnant ice
• stagnant inflation
• stagnant water
• economic) stagnation