Translations for „stultify“ in the English » German Dictionary

stul·ti·fy <-ie-> [ˈstʌltɪfaɪ] VB trans form

1. stultify (ridicule):

to stultify sth/sb

etw/jdn der Lächerlichkeit preisgeben [o. ins Lächerliche ziehen]

2. stultify (paralyse):

to stultify sth/sb

etw/jdn lähmen

to stultify sth/sb technique, mind, ability

etw/jdn verkümmern lassen

to stultify the mind

den Geist lähmen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to stultify the mind

den Geist lähmen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

In addition, their belligerent attack is stultified in a glass case of overburdening instruction, and their assured premiership dynasty has miserably failed at one.

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Now they did not have a set-up that stultified the better instincts of their players.

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Creativity is disruptive; schools and organizations are regimented, standardized and stultifying.

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Once on set, the fan extras suffered the long hours and stultifying downtime with no complaints.

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John took to the staid business of the law, which his brother had so found so stultifying, and decided to make it his career.

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The second-half of normal time was the best of it, though, as blistering as the first-half had been stultifying.

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But of course, three to qualify in groups and only one win necessary, led to stultifying caution.

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A beautiful game becomes mind-numbing and stultifying with too many stoppages over the last two minutes.

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Thankfully such circumstances don't happen all over the world, but the thought of a hotel-nets-hotel-ground routine is stultifying.

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The narrator refers to this method as a terrible way to stultify the mind.

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