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STULTIFY

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Irregular inflected form: stultified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

Example:

Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work

Synonyms:

cripple; stultify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

weaken (lessen the strength of)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to appear foolish

Example:

He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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:

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

Example:

nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

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)

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