You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
cripple, stultify
(verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; “This measure crippled our efforts”; “Their behavior stultified the boss’s hard work”
stultify
(verb) cause to appear foolish; “He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent”
stultify
(verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone’s incompetence; “nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stultified
simple past tense and past participle of stultify
• sluttified
Source: Wiktionary
Stul"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stultified; p. pr. & vb. n. Stultifying.] Etym: [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)
Definition: To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.