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
stultify (third-person singular simple present stultifies, present participle stultifying, simple past and past participle stultified)
(transitive) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
(transitive) To cause to appear foolish.
(transitive) To deprive of strength or efficacy; make useless or worthless.
• (cause to appear foolish): humiliate
• sluttify
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
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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