stultify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting. transitive
    — Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
  2. To make useless or worthless. dated,transitive
    — His business plan was stultified by new technologies.
  3. To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy. dated,transitive
    — The politicians continued to stultify themselves.
  4. To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence. archaic,transitive
    — And although, as hath been observed, according to the strict rules of law no person is allows to stultify himself, yet it seems that even at law the contracts of idiots and lunaticks, after office found, and the party legally commited, are void […]

词形变化

stultifies present,singular,third-person stultifying participle,present stultified participle,past stultified past

词汇关系

衍生词
self-stultifying stultifier
相关词
dumbify stolid

词源

From Latin stultus (“stupid, foolish”), + -ify. Compare Late Latin stultificō.
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