"stultifying" meaning in English

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          "text": "Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?",
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          "ref": "2017 October 27, Paul Daley, “The whole recognition process has a deep colonial resonance”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Indeed, the government’s stultifying response betrays an attitude reminiscent of the old mission vicar: only we know what’s really good for them (see Scullion above).",
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          "text": "The Judge was from an era when a person could get away with being larger than life — unlike the present day, when so much of our stultifying public discourse has come to be about joining in unearned moral superiority to look down our noses.",
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