单词	stultify
释义	stultifyingstul‧ti‧fy‧ing /ˈstʌltəfaɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINstultifying Origin: 1700-1800 Late Latin stultificare ‘to make stupid’, from Latin stultus ‘stupid’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a stultifying corporate environment EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A hierarchy is seen as stultifying, rigid and caste-like. For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a stultifying, even a discrediting, exercise. Private enterprise and initiative would replace the stultifying effect of joint responsibility and periodic redistribution of land. Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history. so boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to think:  a stultifying office environment—stultify verb [transitive]
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