stagnate

Growth has stagnated as the country struggles with a real estate downturn, growing debt, rising youth unemployment and a slowdown in consumer spending.

Contrary to widespread concerns that global crop yields have stagnated in recent decades, a comprehensive study of worldwide food production finds yields have continued to grow at roughly the same rate since the 1960s.

With the laborers needed to pick crops and build houses disappearing, those industries could stagnate, throwing native-born jobholders out of work.

Is it any wonder that as labor union membership plummeted, wealth inequality expanded, health care access dwindled, and paychecks stagnated?

So, when they’re not eating, things in the digestive tract stagnate.