Clues for the word "STAGNATE"
We've had 23 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 34 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 05, 2025.
Definition of stagnate
- v. t. - To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
- v. t. - To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
- a. - Stagnant.
Referring Clues
- Remain in a rut
- Cease to develop
- Stand still
- Stop running, as water
- Languish, in a way
- Get stuck in a rut
- Just lie there
- Stop progressing
- Become foul, like bilge water
- It's natural to keep in step and fail to be vibrant
- Stop development, say, to introduce grand new article
- Don't move party when Etna erupts
- Become foul from inertia
- Eats up insect's inside merely to exist
- Become brackish or sluggish
- Become stale from lack of motion
- Beast with a 10 inclined to suffer from immobility
- Decline to speak about a no good uprising
- Hunted animal with a net, perhaps, then do nothing
- Become stale
- Poor nag's in condition to do nothing
- Stand still! Deer never attack the elderly, for starters
- Cease to flow, as water
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 09, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 04, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - May 30, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 11, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 30, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - June 30, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 19, 2017
- Your Life Choices - November 21, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - June 19, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - June 06, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 14, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 14, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - January 31, 2012
- Netword - July 12, 2011
- Washington Post - May 21, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - September 21, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 26, 2010
- Guardian Quiptic - January 18, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 21, 2009
- Guardian Quick - April 04, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - January 27, 2009
- Guardian Quick - January 17, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 27, 2008
- LA Times - February 02, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - October 18, 2007
- New York Sun - July 26, 2007
- And in 4 more crossword puzzles...