stultify

verb4

1. •
   To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.

   • Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy.
2. •
   (old-fashioned) To cause to appear foolish; to deprive of strength; to stupefy.

   • The politicians continued to stultify themselves.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To make useless or worthless.

   • His business plan was stultified by new technologies.
4. •
   (no longer used) To prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence.