MEANING
1. To make a claim, process, or effort seem foolish, ineffective, or impossible to take seriously.
2. To suppress someone’s energy or initiative through dullness, routine, or excessive restriction.
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The missing witness threatened to stultify the prosecution’s argument.
Rules that measured every minute began to stultify the volunteers’ initiative.
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- Base
- stultify
- Past tense
- stultified
- Past participle
- stultified
- Present participle
- stultifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- stultify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are stultifying
- Present perfect
- have/has stultified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been stultifying
- Past
- stultified
- Past continuous
- was/were stultifying
- Past perfect
- had stultified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been stultifying
- Future
- will stultify
- Future continuous
- will be stultifying
- Future perfect
- will have stultified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been stultifying
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