verb
definition
To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
definition
To cause to appear foolish.
definition
To deprive of strength or efficacy; make useless or worthless.
adjective
definition
Tending to stultify.
Examples of stultifying in a Sentence
A Big Girl Like You 16-year-old Sabine is dissatisfied with her stultifying life in the French provinces.
Their goal is to frighten the public and intimidate regulators into further tightening the already stultifying regulation of biotechnology.
This is not some artificial, stultifying debate, far-removed from the needs of real people.
Interesting as an exercise, I think, but quite stultifying in the artistic sense.
The growth of the quango culture is having a stultifying effect on economic development.
The stultifying atmosphere of service life was difficult to endure.
The use of sound as a medium also circumvents the stultifying self-consciousness felt by many children when being watched or filmed.
Barbecues, church, neat lawns, stultifying suburban sameness.
Second, it would be held in the open air, not in the sometimes stultifying heat and congestion of a marquee.
Opposition to the " hydrogen-acid " theory centred mainly about the hypothetical radicals which it postulated; moreover, the electrochemical theory of Berzelius exerted a stultifying influence on the correct views of Davy and Dulong.
The sole justification for such a claim lay in the terms of the Treaty of London, which the Yugosla y s could not adopt as a basis without stultifying their whole position against Italy.