restagnate

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English

Etymology

Latin restagnare to overflow.

Verb

restagnate (third-person singular simple present restagnates, present participle restagnating, simple past and past participle restagnated)

  1. (obsolete) To stagnate; to cease to flow.
    • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:
      the Bloud returns thick, and is apt to restagnate, and usually increaseth the Veins at those times to fix or seven

References

restagnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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