英语词汇“stultify”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	stultify
释义	stul·ti·fy \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌfī\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Late Latin stultificare to make foolish, from Latin stultus foolish + -ficare -fy — more at stall 1. : to allege or prove (oneself or another) to be of unsound mind so that the performance of some act may be avoided 2. a. : to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical < the dullards become more stultified than ever — C.H.Grandgent > < incidents will have occurred tending to stultify conclusions — James Stevenson-Hamilton > < how like the man to stultify himself, to prove all his own theories wrong — Clemence Dane > < the court did not stultify itself by claiming that its ruling fulfilled any logical, legal progression toward racial equality — C.S.Dowdey > b. : to impair, invalidate, or reduce to futility or uselessness especially through debasing or repressive influences : frustrate, nullify < the psychiatrist stultifies his role if he allows such misunderstandings to develop — C.P.Printzlien > < demand for fresh leadership … is running smack into the stultifying seniority system — T.R.Ybarra > < the slavish traditionalism that stultifies most contemporary ecclesiastical art — Time > < centralization … stultifies their local initiative — Hugh McDiarmid > < stultified by the oppressive atmosphere of her earlier life — Martin Levin >
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