stultify

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

stultifies

V_ing/Gerund

stultifying

V_ed/pp

stultified

1.
(transitive)To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
Đồng nghĩa: inhibit, impair, dull
2.
(dated, transitive)To make useless or worthless.
His business plan was stultified by new technologies.
3.
(dated, transitive)To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.
The politicians continued to stultify themselves.
Đồng nghĩa: humiliate
4.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, archaic, originally law) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

inhibit impair dull humiliate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

stultifierself-stultifyingdumbifystolid

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From la stultus, -ify. Compare stultificō.