Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stultifying
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stultifying corporate environment
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hierarchy is seen as stultifying, rigid and caste-like.
▪ For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a stultifying, even a discrediting, exercise.
▪ Private enterprise and initiative would replace the stultifying effect of joint responsibility and periodic redistribution of land.
▪ Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stultifying
Stultify \Stul"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stultified; p. pr. & vb. n. Stultifying.] [L. stultus foolish + -fy.]
To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
--Burke.-
To regard as a fool, or as foolish. [R.]
The modern sciolist stultifies all understanding but his own, and that which he conceives like his own.
--Hazlitt. (Law) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Wiktionary
stultifying
a. Tending to stultify.