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Verb stultifies, stultifying, stultified
stultify - prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"
		shew, demonstrate, establish, prove, show march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle"
		jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
stultify - cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"
		jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, blackguard, guy, rib, roast subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
		cripple
		weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"

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stultify (Verb)
To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
stultify (Verb)
To cause to appear foolish.
stultify (Verb)
To deprive of strength or efficacy; make useless or worthless.

stultify (v. t.)
To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
stultify (v. t.)
To regard as a fool, or as foolish.
stultify (v. t.)
To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.

stultify
stul′ti-fī, v.t. to make a fool of: to cause to appear foolish: to destroy the force of one's argument by self-contradiction: (law) to allege or prove to be of unsound mind:—pa.t. and pa.p. stul′tified.—ns. Stultificā′tion, act of stultifying or making foolish; Stul′tifier, one who stultifies or makes a fool of; Stultil′oquence, Stultil′oquy, foolish talk or discourse, babbling.—adj. Stultil′oquent.—adv. Stultil′oquently. [L. stultus, foolish, facĕre, to make.]