Check Dictionary

Find out more about word, its definitions etc.

Valid in these dictionaries

TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of stagnate

1 definition found

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  stagnate
      v 1: stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate
           our economy"
      2: cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the
         waters"
      3: cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters";
         "blood stagnates in the capillaries"
      4: be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat
         and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
         [syn: {idle}, {laze}, {slug}, {stagnate}] [ant: {work}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

Use this dictionary checker to learn more about a word - find out its meaning and also make sure whether that word is a valid word in any of these dictionaries (used by popular word games). Here is the list of dictionaries it checks for :

OCTWL / TWL : The official dictionary for scrabble game in United States, Canada and Thailand.
SOWPODS / CSW : UK and the rest of the world uses this dictionary for various word games including scrabble.
ENABLE - This is the default dictionary for Words with Friends.

The dictionary checker is also good at solving any issue with a disputed word when you're playing scramble games gainst your friends or family members. As a bonus, you also learn new words while having fun!

Back to Word Unscrambler