stultify

Jan. 5th, 2009 07:43 am
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stultify - v., to make, or cause to appear, foolish or stupid; to impair, dull, or make ineffective, esp. by degrading or frustrating means.


As in the stultify with repetitive tasks. Also a legal sense, to allege or prove (someone) to be of unsound mind. In use since the 1760s, taken from Latin stultificāre, to make stupid, from stultus, stupid + ficāre, to make.

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