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Stagnant

That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.

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Adynamic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

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Adynamic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

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Standing 84% connected

of Stand

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of Stand

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Stagnate 74% connected

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 stagnat…

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Stagnate 74% connected

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 stagnat…

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Stagnation 74% connected

The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood;…

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Stagnation 74% connected

The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood;…

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Dead 92% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Moribund 92% connected

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

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Aberration noun · 78% connection

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

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Amia noun · 78% connection

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, an…

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Ampere noun · 78% connection

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…

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Cisco noun · 78% connection

The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a re…

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Countercurrent noun · 78% connection

A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

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Crannoge noun · 78% connection

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be…

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Crosshead noun · 78% connection

A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece run…

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Current adjective · 78% connection

A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest p…

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Cut-off noun · 78% connection

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stro…

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Defile verb · 78% connection

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

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Dirt noun · 78% connection

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a…

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Eddy noun · 78% connection

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

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Feculent adjective · 78% connection

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

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Filthy superl. · 78% connection

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

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Foul superl. · 78% connection

Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; pollu…

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Go verb · 78% connection

To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progre…

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Impure adjective · 78% connection

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substa…

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Impurity noun · 78% connection

That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.

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