Stultify

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. 

2. to render absurdly or wholly futile (無益的) or ineffectual, esp. by degrading or frustrating means: 



咪 Menial (奴顏婢膝的) work can stultify the [mind].  



3. Law. to allege or prove (oneself or another) to be of unsound mind.  



—Synonyms 

2. cripple, impede, frustrate, hinder, thwart.





 　

After society matron Mrs. Walker ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have [sealed] her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the 



rich surroundings and stultifying social [strictures] of James' story.   





see stifle to stifle a [yawn]



thwart

baffle affable amiable



bashful

diffident timid

tepid lukewarm