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

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Etymology

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (cause to appear foolish): humiliate

Anagrams

• sluttify

Source: Wiktionary

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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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