dumbify

1. The act of making a relatively intelligent statement dumber. 2. The act of re-writing an incredibly eloquent sounding paper, before its submission, that was not written by yourself (but was written by a person you trust will perform the task at hand by the deadline), and making it sound dumber, so that your professor does not realize you did not write the entire paper yourself. You do this for three reasons: 1) you're too lazy to verbalize your intelligence on a daily basis, 2) you avoid any wild suspicion of his/hers that you did not preform the assignment yourself, and 3) you're smart enough to dumbify the already well-written sentences so that you do not increase your professors expectations for your work in the future