stagnate

The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance."

"This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her."

Time seemed to stagnate; the sun would not go down; my watch ticked, but I thought the hands were paralyzed.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Never in her life had she beheld so torpid, so black, so muddy-looking a stream; its waters reflected no images of anything that was on the banks, and it moved as sluggishly as if it had quite forgotten which way it ought to flow, and had rather stagnate than flow either one way or the other.

Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate."

I should rush into idleness, and stagnate there with all my might."

or if the web is too finely woven, too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?

Time stagnates here: we must surely have retired to rest at eight!'

The desperadoes of Project Fear are predicting that leaving the EU will result in something close to Armageddon, our economy will stagnate, unemployment will soar, travel will be restricted, bottlenecks at our borders, huge lorry queues causing gridlock, no fresh fruit and veg in the shops, (there goes our five a day), no export markets for our livestock, (vegans could have a problem here), medical supplies will be drying up, (could curb over prescribing), all exports will be severely restricted.

A gloomy picture emerges for households in Cyprus as they witness a demise in their purchasing power as prices and rents increase while salaries stagnate.

And just to be clear, you may be on the same job at different branches, perhaps taking on additional duties when your boss is away and most likely interacting with new technology and still stagnate.Before you succumb to hopelessness and beat yourself too hard, I am sure there have been benefits you have gained, such as work experience in addition to earning a salary that has paid your bills throughout this period.