STULTIFY (stultified)

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Irregular inflected form: stultified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stultify mean? 

• STULTIFY (verb)
  The verb STULTIFY has 3 senses:

1. prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence

2. cause to appear foolish

3. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

  Familiarity information: STULTIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STULTIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stultify    ... he / she / it stultifies   
Past simple: stultified   
Past participle: stultified   
-ing form: stultifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself

Hypernyms (to "stultify" is one way to...):

demonstrate; establish; prove; shew; show (establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

stultification (derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to appear foolish

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent

Hypernyms (to "stultify" is one way to...):

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stultification (derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

cripple; stultify

Context example:

Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work

Hypernyms (to "stultify" is one way to...):

weaken (lessen the strength of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something