'Stultify' definitions:
Definition of 'stultify'
From: WordNet
verb
Prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"
verb
Cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"
verb
Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify]
Definition of 'Stultify'
From: GCIDE
- Stultify \Stul"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stultified; p. pr. & vb. n. Stultifying.] [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stultify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annul,
- asphyxiate,
- befool,
- bottle up,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- censor,
- check,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- come to nothing,
- constipate,
- cork,
- cork up,
- counterbalance,
- crack down on,
- crush,
- damp down,
- deaden,
- discourage,
- drown,
- dull,
- dupe,
- enfeeble,
- extinguish,
- frustrate,
- gag,
- gull,
- hold down,
- impair,
- infatuate,
- inhibit,
- invalidate,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- muzzle,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nullify,
- offset,
- pour water on,
- put down,
- put on,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- repress,
- restrain,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- smash,
- smother,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stagnate,
- stanch,
- stifle,
- strangle,
- stunt,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- suppress,
- throttle,
- thwart,
- trammel,
- undo,
- vitiate,
- void,
- weaken