STULTIFIED

STULTIFY

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


Verb

stultified

simple past tense and past participle of stultify

Anagrams

• sluttified

Source: Wiktionary


STULTIFY

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



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17 January 2025

OBSERVE

(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”


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