| 单词 | stultifying |
| 释义 | stultifying From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstultifyingstul‧ti‧fy‧ing /ˈstʌltəfaɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective formalBORINGso boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to thinka stultifying office environment —stultify verb [transitive]Examples from the Corpusstultifying• a stultifying corporate environment• Private enterprise and initiative would replace the stultifying effect of joint responsibility and periodic redistribution of land.• For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a stultifying, even a discrediting, exercise.• Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.Origin stultifying (1700-1800) Late Latin stultificare “to make stupid”, from Latin stultus “stupid” |
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