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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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"Stultify" Quotes from Famous Books

... the large currents of life, it would be impossible for Clancy to withdraw into the little side eddy wherein thought was ever turning back to no purpose. Having clasped hands and broken bread with the men and women of the North, he felt that he could not, and would not stultify himself, even for the sake of his love, by any change toward them. They would despise him not only as a miracle of narrowness but also as an insincere man, whose courtesy had been but business policy, easily dropped at the bidding of some ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

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