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stultifying

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stul·ti·fy  (stlt-f)
tr.v. stul·ti·fied, stul·ti·fy·ing, stul·ti·fies
1. To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
2. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
3. Law To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.
[Late Latin stultificre, to make foolish : Latin stultus, foolish; see stel- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficre, -fy.]
stulti·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.
stulti·fier n.
Translations
stultifying [ˈstʌltɪfaɪɪŋ] ADJ [work, regime, routine] → embrutecedor; [atmosphere] → sofocante, agobiante
stultifying [ˈstʌltɪfaɪɪŋ] adj → abrutissant(e)
stultifying
adj → lähmend; boredom, inactivity also → abstumpfend; to have a stultifying effect on somebody → jdn verkümmern lassen


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What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
If they had been at home, settled at Lowick in ordinary life among their neighbors, the clash would have been less embarrassing: but on a wedding journey, the express object of which is to isolate two people on the ground that they are all the world to each other, the sense of disagreement is, to say the least, confounding and stultifying.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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