Difference between Dry Up and Stagnant

DRY UP vs STAGNANT: ADJECTIVE

Not circulating or flowing
Not flowing or moving, and often foul-smelling or stale.
Showing little or no activity or vitality; inactive or sluggish.
That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion
Not active or brisk; dull.
Lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.
Not growing or changing; without force or vitality

Shrivel, Siccative, Foreworn, Wipe up, Desiccative, Parch, Exsiccate, Unparched, Dry out, Fordry, Exsiccant, Dessicate, Desicate, Mummify, Dehydrate

Dirty, Flagging, Frozen, Unchanged, Stable, Depressed, Flat, Static, Sluggish, Stagnating, Adynamic, Dead, Standing, Undynamic, Moribund

Forworn, Dry, Shrivel, Siccative, Foreworn, Wipe up, Desiccative, Parch, Exsiccate, Unparched, Dry out, Fordry, Exsiccant, Mummify, Dehydrate

Dirty, Flagging, Frozen, Unchanged, Stable, Depressed, Flat, Static, Sluggish, Stagnating, Adynamic, Dead, Standing, Undynamic, Moribund

But if you bottle it up and keep it for your own comforts, the flow will dry up.
The petitioners feared that their water source would dry up if office blocks came up in the area.
Tanks and pools that dry up in winter and summer season are all filled up again.
If the Mako Reactor continues to suck up the energy, this fountain will dry up too.
You can fluff up the snow mold to let some air in and it will dry up that area.
Otherwise, the inside foam will dry up and not soak up distilled water effectively.
Anticholinergics, antidepressants, or oral allergy and decongestant medications designed to dry up mucous membranes all can dry the surface of the eye, Dr.
Permanent ponds: Ponds that do not normally dry up except in especially dry years.
This can help dry up a cough or runny nose but can also cause side effects such as a dry mouth and dry nose.
This dry spell has caused the stream to dry up.

Who wants to be stagnant in their career?
Do you need to revitalize a stagnant board?
These colleges have been stagnant since the 1960s.
TRANSACTIONS going down but most prices holding stagnant.
Stagnant air filled with the presence of death.
Many veterinary practices struggle with stagnant client numbers.
It is meant to flow, not be stagnant.
As a result, their revenue base was stagnant.
CIRCULATION: Make sure that there is good movement in the pond, stagnant water is not good as bad bacteria grows well in stagnant water.
Corydalis has been used to move stagnant Qi and stagnant blood especially where there is chest pain, angina, arrythmia, and coronary artery disease.