stultify
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stultify
- /ˈstʌltɪfaɪ/
- /ˈstʌltəfaɪ/
Where it comes from
From Latin stultus (“stupid, foolish”), + -ify. Compare Late Latin stultificō.
verb stultifies · stultifying · stultified
- To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting. Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
- To make useless or worthless. His business plan was stultified by new technologies.
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To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.
The politicians continued to stultify themselves.
Similar: humiliate
- To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence. And although, as hath been observed, according to the strict rules of law no person is allows to stultify himself, yet it seems that even at law the contracts of idiots and lunaticks, after office found, and the party legally commited, are void […]
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verb to cause to appear foolish
| Español | ridiculizar |
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| Deutsch | blamieren, veralbern, lächerlich machen |
| Italiano | ridicolizzare, sbeffeggiare, schernire |
verb to deprive of strength or efficacy
| Italiano | vanificare, sbriciolare |
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verb to prove to be of unsound mind
| Italiano | denigrare, smontare, smantellare |
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