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

This elfish dement in Stevenson is most apparent in his letters and stories.

From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur

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