stultify 的定义
stul·ti·fied, stul·ti·fy·ing.
- to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, especially by degrading or frustrating means: Menial work can stultify the mind.
- Law. to allege or prove to be of unsound mind.
stultify 近义词
ridicule
inhibit
impede
更多stultify例句
- It occurred to him that modern education existed largely to stultify independent thought.
- "To thank men like Cowan, who did not desire to enfranchise woman any more than the negro, was to stultify ourselves," he said.
- The latter has allowed its prejudices and its feelings to obliterate or to stultify its reason.
- Link-torches, unless of the best pitch-pine (Pinus resinosa), do not burn with sufficient brightness to stultify the pigeons.
- As she took a step towards the bridge-tables, Jack felt that he was losing her; yet he would only stultify himself by an apology.