Stultify vs Stagnate - What's the difference?
stultify | stagnate |
To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.
To cause to appear foolish.
To deprive of strength or efficacy; make useless or worthless.
To cease motion, activity, or progress:
# To cease to flow or run.
# To be or become foul from standing.
# To cease to develop, advance or change; to become idle.
#* (rfdate), Walter Scott:
#* 2003 , Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom (ISBN 1591606691), page 434:
As verbs the difference between stultify and stagnate
is that stultify is to prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence while stagnate is to cease motion, activity, or progress:.stultify
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(en-verb)Synonyms
* (cause to appear foolish): humiliatestagnate
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(en-verb)- If the water stagnates , algae will grow.
- Air stagnates in a closed room.
- Ready-witted tenderness never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
- Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating , thus promoting mental growth into old age.
