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  • 111vitiate — Synonyms and related words: abate, abolish, abrogate, adulterate, alloy, annihilate, annul, bastardize, blemish, bring to nothing, brutalize, buffer, cancel, cancel out, canker, cheapen, coarsen, come to nothing, confound, contaminate, corrupt,… …

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  • 112void — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abbreviate, abnegate, abolish, abridge, abrogate, absence, abysm, abyss, acreage, annihilate, annul, area, arroyo, bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank, blankness, bleached, blot out,… …

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  • 113folly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of good sense Nouns 1. folly, silliness, foolishness, inanity, idiocy; frivolity, ineptitude; giddiness; inattention; irrationality, eccentricity (see insanity); extravagance, nonsense, absurdity;… …

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  • 114stultifying — stul|ti|fy|ing [ˈstʌltıfaı ıŋ] adj formal [Date: 1700 1800; : Late Latin; Origin: stultificare to make stupid , from Latin stultus stupid ] so boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to think ▪ a stultifying office environment… …

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  • 115stultifying — adjective cause to feel bored or enervated. → stultify …

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  • 116befool — v. a. Infatuate, fool, dupe, deceive, delude, cheat, chouse, trick, hoax, stultify, hoodwink, circumvent, overreach, beguile, impose upon, practise upon, play upon, make a fool of. See bamboozle …

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  • 117besot — v. a. 1. Intoxicate, steep, drench, soak. 2. Stupefy, make sottish; make foolish or stupid. 3. Infatuate, stultify, befool, intoxicate, delude …

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  • 118infatuate — v. a. 1. Befool, besot, stultify, delude, make foolish, deprive of reason, deprive of sound judgment or common sense. 2. Prepossess extravagantly, carry beside one s self, absorb in an uncontrollable passion …

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  • 119darken — I. v. a. 1. Obscure, cloud, dim, shade, shadow, make dark, make dim. 2. Gloom, make gloomy, sadden, depress, damp, chill. 3. Benight, make ignorant, stultify, stupefy. 4. Perplex, obscure, make intricate. 5. Sully, stain, dull, dim, defile. II. v …

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  • 120stultifying — adjective so boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to think: a stultifying exercise stultify verb (T) stultification / stVltifi keISFn/ noun (U) …

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