Dement

Word DEMENT
Character 6
Hyphenation de ment
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Dement"

What do we mean by dement?

To cause (a person) to become mentally deranged. transitive verb

To cause (a person) to lose intellectual capacity. transitive verb

Out of one's mind; insane; demented.

A demented person; one affected by loss of mental capacity. noun

To bring into a state of dementia; destroy the mind of.

To deprive of reason; to make mad. transitive verb

Demented; dementate. adjective

Insane, demented adjective

An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia noun

To drive mad; to craze verb

An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia

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The word "dement" in example sentences

Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: bothwrong and dement have a fear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's of the age for it, and people with personality disorders dement too. ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

February 15, 2008 at 9:33 am i twied to poast anuther linkee to iris dement singin blessed assurance closer to wut i bleeve, akshully but it gets eeted. must be too controbershul. ❋ Unknown (2008)

February 16, 2008 at 4:34 am maybee u cud try posting linky again…i iz big iris dement fan ❋ Unknown (2008)

Personally, I have bladder fortitude and a fear of peeing in mobile places so I'm not really familiar with the dement ions of portable toilets, but being a trained observer I'm pretty sure they might need a bit more space. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

The best saltpetre, an essential dement of gunpowder, came from India and he had never considered that there might be a shortage in France. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)

Venator had walked the veldt among lions and Cape buffalo, scaled a glacier, shot rapids, disarmed more than one dement gone violent. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

"Or maybe a dement -" Horror wrenched out of Aleka. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

They hastened theirs'to the dtsgrun-dement of the pack-mules. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)

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. ❋ Bernard Glueck (N/A)

In short, we are not dealing here with paretics or senile dements, who, although being at the same time prisoners, remain subject to the same unavoidable lot of the paretic or the senile dement. ❋ Bernard Glueck (N/A)

The inference from this is inevitable that what we regard as a "Trendless praecox" or a taciturn dement may simply be one who does not choose to talk and not necessarily a vegetative wreck with neither delusions nor hallucinations. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The time will come -- perhaps is here -- when we should provide for the "care and treatment of epileptics" -- not the epileptic who has lost all his opportunity in life for want of this care, and is already a dement and incurable, but for the class who are living in the community handicapped on every side and daily losing ground. ❋ North Carolina Board Of Public Charities (1909)

One an idiot, one a dement (suicidal), one repeatedly insane. ❋ James Leslie Allan Kayll (1908)

It will readily be understood that the progressive paralytic (paralytic dement) will act in one way, and the true pædophile in another. ❋ Albert Moll (1900)

“Venir nous dire que tout poete de talent est, par essence, un grand penseur, et que tout vrai penseur est necessairement artiste et poete, c'est une pretention insoutenable et que dement a chaque instant la realite.” ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

Alluding to the love incantations whereby harlots tried to dement and ensnare youths; answering to the subtle machinations whereby Assyria attracted nations to her. selleth -- deprives of their liberty; as slaves used to be sold: and in other property also sale was a usual mode of transfer. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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