stultify
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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022
He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2012
So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2011
The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010
There had been a deep instinct, like one of nature's cruel yet righteous laws, in Milly's withdrawal; to have consented, to have compromised, would have been to stifle and stultify herself.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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