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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.