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Aug. 20, 2016
stultify\STUHL-tuh-fahy\verb
1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
2. to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, especially by
degrading or frustrating means: Menial work can stultify the mind.
QuotesI have become your poodle. You trample on my heart, you crush me,
you stultify me, and I love you as I have never loved in my life.
-- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Betty, translated by James Waring, 1901
Origin of stultifyStultify finds its roots in the Latin word stultus
meaning "stupid; foolish." It entered English in the 1760s.More From
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