stultify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make someone or something dull and lifeless, especially by limiting freedom or imagination.

   Years of boring routine had stultified his creativity.

2. 2
   verb

   To make someone look foolish or weak.

   His own contradictions stultified his argument.

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

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