Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
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Stultify
//ˈstʌltɪfaɪ//
Synonyms for "stultify" (87 found)
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18 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- окарикатурявам verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- омаловажавам verb (to deprive of strength or efficacy)
- признавам за невменяем verb (to prove to be of unsound mind)
Dutch
2 entries- belachelijk maken verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- blameren verb (to cause to appear foolish)
Finnish
1 entries- tylsistää verb (to deprive of strength or efficacy)
German
3 entries- blamieren verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- lächerlich machen verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- veralbern verb (to cause to appear foolish)
Italian
4 entries- denigrare verb (to prove to be of unsound mind)
- ridicolizzare verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- sbeffeggiare verb (to cause to appear foolish)
- sbriciolare verb (to deprive of strength or efficacy)
Spanish
1 entries- ridiculizar verb (to cause to appear foolish)
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From the economic point of view, the concentration of future construction into a dozen or so standard classes should be for the good, provided it is not adhered to too rigidly, and allowed to stultify progress in design and further efforts to improve the efficiency of the steam locomotive, which still remains the simplest and most reliable of machines ever invented by man.
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I for one find the weekly puzzle plenty big enough to satisfy, and, without a good theme, to stultify.
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Robots excel at exactly the repetitive tasks that stultify the human mind and strain the human body.
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