stultifying in English

verb
1
cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
the mentally stultifying effects of a disadvantaged home
synonyms:hamperimpedethwartfrustratefoilsuppresssmotherboremake boreddullnumbbenumbstupefy
2
cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd.
Counsel is not expected to stultify himself in an attempt to advance his client's interests
verb

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1. A rigid routine can be stultifying and boring.

2. These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.

3. Bridges go two ways, though, and what is about to arrive going the other way is a stultifying 600-year empire.

4. A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.

5. For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a stultifying, even a discrediting, exercise.

6. Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.

7. Vital Conjunctures suggest a new way of aggregating life history experiences and thus working between the individual and the social, free from the stultifying assumption of Stapes de vie

8. Beyond that, communication was generally made in the appalling and stultifying cadences of so-called pidgin English, with its implicit assumption that the African native must submit himself to the norms of the English visitor.