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Stultify

Stultify Meaning & Definition
Stultify Definition And Meaning

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

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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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