abrutir
Meanings
Verb
1. to render idiotic; to turn into idiots (transitive)
2. to blunt or deaden the mind (ambitransitive)
3. to overwhelm, to devastate (transitive)
4. to return to a brutish or bestial state (literary)
Examples3
Vous n'abrutissez pas les étudiants.
You're not overwhelming the children.
La télévision abrutit les gens.
Television stultifies people.
Cette émission télévisée abrutit les gens.
That TV show makes people stupid.