Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
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Stultify
/ˈstʌltɪfaɪ/
Synonyms for "stultify" (98 found)
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13 entriesdampen enthusiasmdebilitatingdemeaning remarkhamper progressinvalidate claimmockerynegate proposalneutralize effectnumbingparalyticrestrict fundingridiculestifle creativity
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12 entriesstultify argumentstultify effortstultify initiativestultify policystultify progressstultify researchstultifying atmospherestultifying bureaucracystultifying effectstultifying pacestultifying routinestultifying rules
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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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