stultify

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The regular use of calculators could stultify a child's capacity to do basic mental operations.
經(jīng)常使用計算器會使孩子用腦進行基本運算的能力變得遲鈍。
Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.
LHC和空間項目對人類都至關(guān)重要——如果人類不想一代代笨下去并最終滅亡的話。
He had made money, and had had splendid opportunities to make a great deal more if he had been willing to stultify his conscience, but that he had never been able to do.
他也賺過一點錢，而且如果他肯昧良心的話，原有很好的機會可以多賺的，但是這樣的事情他始終不干。

The level of supervision needed to root out all the mediocre will also stultify the brilliant.
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The move towards it, in fact, if implemented too quickly, could stultify economic growth.
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But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs.
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If something stultifies you, or if it stultifies your energy or ambition, it makes you feel empty or dull in your mind, because it is so boring.
stultifying