stultify

stultify音标

英 ['stʌltɪfaɪ]

美 ['stʌltɪfaɪ]

stultify基本释义

vt. 使 ... 显得愚蠢； 使 ... 无效； 使 ... 厌烦

stultify用法及例句

verb

1. deprive of strength or efficiencymake useless or worthless

e.g. This measure crippled our effortsTheir behavior stultified the boss's hard work

Synonym: cripple

2. cause to appear foolish

e.g. He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent

3. prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence

e.g. nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself

1. 使思维迟钝;使厌烦;使呆滞If something stultifies you, it makes you feel empty or dull in your mind, because it is so boring.

e.g. This attitude stultifies scientific progress...这种态度会扼杀科学的进步。e.g. Only a uniformed guard stultified with boredom might have overheard them.只有一名穿制服的无聊警卫可能偷听到了他们的谈话。

1. 显得愚笨：stultification 愚笨 | stultify 显得愚笨 | stum 未发酵葡萄汁

2. 使无用：strident尖声的 | stultify使无用 | stupor昏迷

3. 使无效,使无价值：steerage 驾驶,操纵;下等客舱 | strategy 战略;策略 | stultify 使无效,使无价值

4. 使显得愚笨, 使成为徒劳, 使变无效 (动)：stultification 显得愚笨; 变无效 (名) | stultify 使显得愚笨, 使成为徒劳, 使变无效 (动) | stumble 绊倒, 失策, 失足; 使绊倒, 使困惑 (动)

I, to stultify my book for the sake of popularity, money!

出自：C. Kingsley

近义词

临近词

negate否定

set up建立

numb麻木的

put off不安

deaden使(感觉、痛苦等)减弱...

block街区

humiliate使 ... 蒙羞

make a fool of愚弄

belittle轻视

cancel out消除

cripple跛者

dull呆滞的

ridicule嘲笑

bore使厌烦

pre-empt先占

preempt以优先购买权获得...

ST

stupa

相关列句

We must fight low expectations because they stultify ambition.(我们一定要摆脱较低的期望，因为它们会磨灭我们的志向。)

Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people... machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.(类似机械之物会催生或者忽略人心里的一些东西……机械剥夺我们生活中的人情味，抹杀我们内心的某些情感，把生存环境变得冷淡无情。)

The regular use of calculators could stultify a child's capacity to do basic mental operations.(经常使用计算器会使孩子用脑进行基本运算的能力变得迟钝。)