stultify

Jess eventually realizes it, after a spree of endless nights spent binging on fun-fun-fun, the girls racing around the lawn in a psychedelics-induced stupor after their stultifying dinners with the men.

In Lebanon, the stultifying heat of summer is overlaid by a layer of anxiety.

India has not shared in that transformation in large part because of a historical focus on self-sufficiency, a disdain for international trade and stultifying bureaucracy that has discouraged investment.

Students stultified by scripted curriculums and endless test prep.

He briefly enrolled at City College of New York to become an engineer, but after his time at war he found the academic routine unsettling and stultifying.