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Stultify

verb

(past & past part. stultified; pres. part. stultifying)

Prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.

Cause to appear foolish.

Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless. Synonym: cripple. "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

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... interrupted; "but the ball he set rolling is now doing so more violently than I can believe he intended. Still, if stopping the clock before its time is likely to stultify his memory in any way—why then, Monsieur, I, for one, will do my best to keep it going. What do ...

— Till the Clock Stops • John Joy Bell

... would have good results. With his friends he held that there was not the slightest probability of her being other than a widow, and a challenge to the missing man now, followed by no response, would stultify any unpleasant remarks which might be thrown at her after their union. To this end a paragraph was inserted in the Wessex papers, announcing that their marriage was proposed to be celebrated on such and ...

— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy

... which, in January, formed the laws for the distribution of these medals, should meet together in November, and in direct violation of these laws, award them to two philosophers, one of whom had made, and fully established, his great discovery almost twenty years before; and the other of whom (to stultify themselves still more effectually) they expressly rewarded for a paper made known to ...

— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage

... to the Church he could have left them to stultify themselves in any way they thought proper, and himself had gone; but he felt supremely interested in the result, and he ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... crowns in encouragement of his talent. The Serbs have continued that, and given him the equivalent in dinars. But he is attached to the Art Department of the Ministry of Education and has to put in an appearance every day—a duty which goes a long way to stultify ...

— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

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