stult

present singular third person stults · participle present stulting · participle past stulted · past stulted

1. To choke off; to arrest; to deprive of strength or efficacy.

   He thought that this paper would tend to stult the publication of those many absurd and misleading tabular statements with which the insurance world has been overdone for the last three or four years.

   1876, The Insurance Times - Volume 9, page 409

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   If there is anything of a deterrent character in the working of the act now in force, so as to stult the business in the future, or to interfere with the great beneficent business of life insurance, to limit its usefulness, it certainly will have to go.

   1907, Actuarial Society of America, Transactions - Volume 10, page 522

   A great Injury to humanity is clone through needlessly and carelessly permitting workers to be poisoned by white lead, injured by excessive heat, made tuberculous by dusts, diseased' and stulted by working conditions that could be avoided.

   1914, Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Annual Report: 1912/1913, page 631

   In Pakistan, national liberation movement instead of moving forward, got stulted and its subcomponent, the foreign policy, far from being useful to the progress of national liberation, became instrumental in undermining even its political freedom.

   1987, Virendra Narain, Foreign Policy of Bangladesh, 1971-1981