dement
dement
Definition
de·ment (dē ment′)
transitive verb
Archaic to make insane
Etymology: < L dementare < demens (gen. dementis), mad, out of one's mind < de-, out from + mens, mind
dement
Usage Examples
Object
- illness: The for dementia Admiral Nurse service supports carers of people with a dementing illness.
- something: Only the track titles give away the fact that something quite genuinely demented is going on within.
- patient: Comparison between two wards for the care of severely demented patients ' .
- man: Let's try to impose some order on the rabid tirade of a sorely frustrated and possibly demented old man.
Preposition: as
- chicken: Incorporating them into chickens may well produce demented as well as poisonous chickens.
Modifying Another Word
- severely: Comparison between two wards for the care of severely demented patients ' .
- slightly: It's no masterpiece, it's slightly demented in places but always happily cartoonishly so.
- increasingly: The increasingly demented scientist murders anyone who stumbles on the truth.
- not: This quarter share of their genes can only be propagated if they are not demented from brain injury or degeneracy.
- well: Some may have been demented as well - I really don't know, but they were all very quiet, if not asleep.
- seriously: The result is one seriously demented piece of cinema that's kind of like a bad dream that just keeps getting worse and worse.
Preposition: in
- past: I drove myself near demented in the past with three different connection conventions to support on the various kit we had bought.
Browse dictionary entries near dement
- demeanour
- demeanor
- demean
- deme
- Demavend
- dematerializing
- dematerialized
- dematerialize
- demark
- demarcation point
- demented
- dementedly
- dementia
- dementia praecox
- Demerara
- Demerara (sugar)
- demerit
- Demerol
- demersal
- demesne
