become demented

Example Sentences

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"If you have amyloid in your brain, we don't know for certain that you will become demented, and we don't have anything we can do about it."

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2010

Old Crompton began to fear the glitter in the eyes of the gaunt young man who seemed suddenly to have become demented.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry

If attendants will watch their patients as they come out of acute mania or melancholia and become quiet, they will often notice that they gain in flesh and become demented.

From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.

For a moment Giafer, who seriously believed that the Caliph had become demented, hesitated.

From Tales of the Caliph by Crellin, H. N.

This led the old people to believe that for the loss of her son and husband she had become demented and had destroyed herself.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir