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Verb: stultify  'stúl-tu,fI
  1. Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
    "Their behaviour stultified the boss's hard work";
    - cripple
     
  2. Cause to appear foolish
    "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"
     
  3. (law) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence
    "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

Derived forms: stultified, stultifies, stultifying

Type of: blackguard, demonstrate, establish, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun of, poke fun, prove, rib [informal], ridicule, roast [informal], shew [Brit, archaic], show, weaken