become demented
Example Sentences
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"If you have amyloid in your brain, we don't know for certain that you will become demented, and we don't have anything we can do about it."
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2010
If attendants will watch their patients as they come out of acute mania or melancholia and become quiet, they will often notice that they gain in flesh and become demented.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.
Old Crompton began to fear the glitter in the eyes of the gaunt young man who seemed suddenly to have become demented.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry
Fairy women of great beauty have human lovers, but vanish for ever after a few meetings, with the result that their lovers become demented.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
A man of light mind who endeavoured to reconcile all the things suggested to him by the coming of Christmas would probably become demented if he bent his entire intellect to solve the puzzles.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
