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单词
stultify
释义
stultifying
stul‧ti‧fy‧ing
/
ˈstʌltəfaɪ-ɪŋ
/
adjective
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
stultifying
Origin:
1700-1800
Late Latin
stultificare
‘to make stupid’
, from
Latin
stultus
‘stupid’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a
stultifying
corporate environment
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A hierarchy is seen as
stultifying
, rigid and caste-like.
For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a
stultifying
, even a discrediting, exercise.
Private enterprise and initiative would replace the
stultifying
effect of joint responsibility and periodic redistribution of land.
Together with its
stultifying
racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.
so boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to think
:
a stultifying office environment
—
stultify
verb
[transitive]
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