dement

Example Sentences

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Success is, eventually, actually reading your unread books, or at least holding on to them long enough that they have the chance to satisfy, dissatisfy or dement you.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2019

“In theory, they’ll be useful. But we don’t know for an individual, does this mean inevitably they will dement? We just don’t know.”

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2013

There was the moment of intermingling with a noise like thunder, the spectacle of broken lances sailing in the air while hones pawed that dement before they went down backward.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Esquirol made the important distinction between the idiot and the dement; and after him many other alienists—notably Itard, Falret, Voisin—described the principal symptoms of idiocy, or attempted to show that it is capable of amelioration.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred

Here we are not dealing with individuals who tend to dement, who have little or no conception of whether they are in a prison or in a hospital.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard