stultify.
To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
Meaning & usage
To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
To make useless or worthless.
His business plan was stultified by new technologies.
To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.
The politicians continued to stultify themselves.
To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
Where this word comes from
From Latin stultus (“stupid, foolish”), + -ify. Compare Late Latin stultificō.
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