Word of the Day: STULTIFY

To inhibit or impair

stultify (verb) - to make dull, absurd, or ineffective [stuhl-tuh-fahy]

BREAKDOWN: STOL[T]- (to stand or put) + -IFY (to make or become)

• stultifying means restricting, impeding, or mind-numbing

See also: stolid

“On a golf course, nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble, nettle, and thistle... Golf turns outdoors into indoors, a prefab mat of stultified grass, processed, pesticided, herbicided, the pseudo-green of formica sterility.” —Jay Griffiths