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Definition
to dull or deprive of strengthor:
cause to appear foolish
Archaic legal usage: to stultify is to prove someone to be of unsound mind or to demonstrate someone's incompetence
- And now shall we leave him in the hands of his enemies—shall we allow them to stifle and stultify his example?Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- Flat, gently rolling, it is stultifying.Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
- What fired the imagination of my students one week bored and stultified them the next.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- Hurstwood saw her depart with some faint stirrings of shame, which were the expression of a manhood rapidly becoming stultified.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Still he feared that stultifying thing which must have been hate.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- Up to that moment Tom had been mostly stultified by emotion utterly new to him.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- In the pause which followed, Jude's eyes fixed themselves with a stultified expression on the opposite seat.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- A singular stultifying shock passed over her.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- For all of our talk of expansion and pioneering spirit these past five centuries, we all know how stultified and static our human universe has become.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- He was stultified, shocked, paralysed.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Well, I tell you I am no longer that passive, weak creature that has spun evil from evil till the web is vast and thick while I remain its stultified victim.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- "In his office!" said the man, with a stultified air.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- The emotion of nonviolence was building in him until it became a prejudice like any other thought-stultifying prejudice.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- She fled the main street and the stultifying heat for the shade of narrow alleyways.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- They had just come from the stultifying workaday world of the ad agencies, money managers, and law firms in the entertainment district around Century Boulevard.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- And the idea had obsessed him, softened him, had grown like a stultifying lichen upon his will, had shorn him of a wild, bold spirit she now strangely longed to see him feel.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification and hypocrisy—this discovery is not a matter for triumph.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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