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stult

stult verb: to choke off; to arrest; to deprive of strength or efficacy.

Verb

stult (third-person singular simple present stults, present participle stulting, simple past and past participle 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
    • 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

Forms of stult

third-person singular presentstults
present participlestulting
past participlestulted
paststulted

Questions about stult

What does stult mean?
Stult means to choke off; to arrest; to deprive of strength or efficacy.
What part of speech is stult?
Stult is a verb.
What is the past tense of stult?
The past tense of stult is stulted.

Words near stult in the dictionary

  1. stulm
  2. stulms
  3. stulp
  4. Stulpicani
  5. stulps
  6. stult
  7. stulted
  8. stultification
  9. stultifications
  10. stultified
  11. stultifier

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