Crossword-Solution: STULTIFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stultify | v. t. | To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct. |
| Stultify | v. t. | To regard as a fool, or as foolish. |
| Stultify | v. t. | To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “STULTIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent | 1 answer |
| Make ridiculous | 1 answer |
| dull (the mind) by boring routine | 1 answer |
| Make worthless | 2 answers |
| MAKE fool of | 6 answers |
| make dull | 7 answers |
| Cause to appear foolish | 11 answers |
| make a fool of | 23 answers |
| Thwart | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STULTIFY (5)
History is full of examples of those in position of an older variety of power using their power to deny, defy and otherwise stultify anything new, and therefore out of their own immediate forms of control.
Such a paper as your Highness proposes would be to stultify the whole previous policy of Grünewald.’ ‘The policy of Grünewald!’ cried the Prince.
Ere their sowing's ended They turn them on their track, Look at the caitiff craven wights Repentant, hurrying back! Grown ashamed of nowhere, Of rags endured for years, Lust for velvet in their hearts, Pierced with Mammon's spears, All but a few fanatics Give up their darling goal, Seek to be as others are, Stultify the soul.
All of a sudden, however, he cried with a sharp, cracked voice, 'That won't do, sir; that won't do--more vehemence--your argument is at present particularly weak; therefore, more vehemence--you must confuse them, stun them, stultify them, sir'; and, at each of these injunctions, he struck the back of his right hand sharply against the palm of the left.
Fitzpiers; and hence she most illogically did that which, had the doctor never seen her, would have operated to stultify the sole motive of her journey; that is to say, she put on a woollen veil, which hid all her face except an occasional spark of her eyes.
Quotes with STULTIFY (2)
But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is …
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. The alternative is that we stultify, we shut down. Think of those times when you've read prose or poetry that is presented in such a way that you have a fleeting sense of being startled by beauty or insight, by a glimpse into someone's soul. All of a sudden everything seems to fit …
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2011–2012).