Stultify

Quick meaning: Stultify is a verb meaning (transitive, dated) To make useless or worthless.

Meaning

(transitive, dated) To make useless or worthless.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, dated) To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.
2. (transitive, archaic, originally law) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
3. (transitive) To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.

Example Sentences

His business plan was stultified by new technologies.

Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.

Here was a disaster—her ingenious scheme completely stultified.

Robots excel at exactly the repetitive tasks that stultify the human mind and strain the human body.

Word Forms

• stultifies
• stultifying
• stultified

Synonyms for stultify

Depending on context, synonyms include inhibit, impair, dull, humiliate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stupidify, dumbify, dumb, foolify, stupify, obstupefy.

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