About The Word Stultify
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Stultify
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What's The Definition Of Stultify?
[v] deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
[v] cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent" [v] prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stultify: cripple Related Terms | Find terms related to Stultify: See Also | blackguard | demonstrate | establish | guy | jest at | laugh at | make fun | poke fun | prove | rib | ridicule | shew | show | weaken Stultify In Webster's Dictionary \Stul"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stultified}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Stultifying}.] [L. stultus foolish + -fy.]
1. To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by
imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or
conduct. --Burke.
2. To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.]
The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but
his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
--Hazlitt.
3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that
the performance of some act may be avoided.
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