Usually means: Make ineffective by discouraging growth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stultify: Merriam-Webster
  2. stultify, stultify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stultify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stultify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stultify: Vocabulary.com
  6. stultify: Wordnik
  7. stultify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stultify: Wiktionary
  9. stultify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stultify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stultify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stultify: Dictionary.com
  13. stultify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Stultify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stultify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. stultify: Rhymezone
  17. Stultify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stultify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. stultify: FreeDictionary.org
  20. stultify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stultify: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stultify: Legal dictionary

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  1. stultify: Encyclopedia

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  1. stultify: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stultify)

verb:  (transitive) To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To make useless or worthless.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, originally law) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.

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