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   stultify

   /ˈstʌltɪfʌɪ/

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   • 1. cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine: "he found ways of gently subverting the class system that stultified 1950s English society" Similar hamperimpedeobstructthwartfrustratefoilsuppresssmotherrepressboremake boreddullnumbbenumbstupefydeadeninformal:bore rigidbore stupidbore to deathrare:hebetateOpposite excite
   • 2. cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd. dated

   Word Origin mid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus ‘foolish’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stultification noun
   • 2. stultifier noun

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   What does stultify mean?

   • This description of the movie showcases one sense of stultify, “to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical.” But there is nothing especially funny about the now-archaic original usage of the word.

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   What does it mean if you stultify yourself?

   • In mid-1700s legal contexts, if you stultified yourself, you claimed to be of unsound mind and thus not responsible for your actions. Nor is there humor in the most common current meaning of stultify, which refers to rendering someone or something dull or ineffective. The government has been stultified by bureaucracy.

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   What does stultify mean in a cult?

   • stultify somebody/something to make somebody feel very bored and unable to think of new ideas Cults stultify their members' critical thinking abilities. Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.

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   What is the meaning of stulti?

   • 1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. 2. to render futile or ineffectual, esp. by degrading or frustrating means. 3. Law. to allege or prove to be of unsound mind. stul`ti•fi•ca′tion, n. stul′ti•fi`er, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.

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   Stultify means to prevent something or someone from developing or having new ideas. Learn how to use this formal and disapproving word with synonyms, translations and pronunciation.

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   When something stultifies you, it drains you of your energy, enthusiasm, or pleasure. Listening to an hour-long graduation speech on a hot, humid day might stultify you. The word stultify is sometimes used in place of to "bore" or "exhaust.”.

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   Stultify means to make someone or something feel empty or dull in the mind, or to make something seem foolish or absurd. Learn more about its word forms, origin, usage, and related words from Collins English Dictionary.

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