English edit

Etymology edit

Latin restagnare to overflow.

Verb edit

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[ichard] Royston [], and B[enjamin] Took, [], →OCLC:
      the Bloud returns thick, and is apt to restagnate, and usually increaseth the Veins at those times to fix or seven

References edit

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

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