Meanings of utter stagnation in English

So she beat her breast, crying, 'Oh, utter stagnation, till Shagpat be shaved!

See the decline of humanity and their utter stagnation.

Mentally she remained in utter stagnation, a condition which the mechanical occupation rather fostered than checked.

Now came a period of utter stagnation

At this period grievous complaints were made by the merchants of the city of the utter stagnation of trade.

Though all her hopes were dead, the native energy of her character asserted itself, and rebelled against utter stagnation.

Even where a talent as dominant and explosive as Russell Westbrook's is concerned, nonexecution and utter stagnation can reign as the great equalizers.

There came the planter, of rather more wealth than his neighbors, solicitous for some excitement and novelty to keep himself from utter stagnation.

I want rest myself; and there's such utter stagnation in the City nowadays that I can very well afford to give myself a holiday.

Generally, then, under the most unfavorable circumstances, we may expect to have some flow of water through the pipes, and rarely an utter stagnation.