Stult

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To choke off; to arrest; to deprive of strength or efficacy.

    "He thought that this paper would tend to stult the publication of those many absurd and misleading tabular statements with which the insurance world has been overdone for the last three or four years."

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"He thought that this paper would tend to stult the publication of those many absurd and misleading tabular statements with which the insurance world has been overdone for the last three or four years."

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