stultify

IPA: stˈʌɫtʌfaɪ

(transitive) To cause to appear foolish.
(transitive) To deprive of strength or efficacy; to stupefy, make useless or worthless.
(transitive, archaic, originally law) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.

Examples of "stultify" in Sentences

You need to stultify him.
She made herself stultify with her clown costume.
It's obvious that Mancini needs to stultify an opponent.
You stultify if you don't have opportunities for growth.
There is no bureaucracy or unionism or local jealousies to stultify it.
The only competition keeps the tech business driving forward and that, in the absence of effective competition, products stultify.
A ban can be considered "informal" by a historian writing in 2009 but still have had the potential to greatly stultify technological development, had it not been reversed.
Yet, the fact is, most cultures – ours included – have created structures that serve to alienate, denigrate, punish, contain, stultify, objectify, and just plain use women.
In fact, if you sit outside of Bikini Village for 10 minutes, you will see every shape and size imaginable walk by, some of which will mystify and stultify, but walk by they do.
By doing the right thing – following in the footsteps of the Bush Administration – without setting forth good reasons, the President will stultify his ability to keep on doing it.
AftertheWhite House gathering earlier this week, Jindal was all over the television, applauding the President's efforts, while simultaneously attempting to hamper and stultify them.
In the middle of your well-deserved editorial paean to Steve Jobs, "The Importance of Jobs" Aug. 26, you can't resist slamming "government rules and controls" that you think "stultify . . . human ingenuity and passion."