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Stultify

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Verb

1. stultify

prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence

Example Sentences:
'nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself'

2. stultify

cause to appear foolish

Example Sentences:
'He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent'

3. cripple, stultify

deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

Example Sentences:
'This measure crippled our efforts'
'Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Stultify

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verb -fies, -fying or -fied (transitive)
1. 
to make useless, futile, or ineffectual, esp by routine
2. 
to cause to appear absurd or inconsistent
3. 
to prove (someone) to be of unsound mind and thus not legally responsible

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Stultify

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈstultiˌfied or ˈstultiˌfying
1. 
a. 
to make seem foolish, stupid, inconsistent, etc.; make absurd or ridiculous
b. 
to make dull or torpid
2. 
to render worthless, useless, or futile
3.  Law
to allege to be of unsound mind and therefore not legally responsible

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Stultify

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tr.v. stul·ti·fied, stul·ti·fy·ing, stul·ti·fies
1. To cause to lose interest or feel dull and not alert: The audience was stultified by the speaker's unchanging monotone.
2. To render useless or ineffectual: "[She believed] that the requirements of conventional academic life can stultify imagination, stifle enthusiasm and deaden prose style" (Robert K. Massie).
3. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous: "Should he now stultify himself in all those quarrels by admitting he had been cruel, unjust, and needlessly jealous?" (Anthony Trollope).
4. Law To claim incapacity as setting aside or preventing enforcement of (a deed or contract).

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