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单词 stultifying
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 environmentstultify verb [transitive]
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