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.
This led the old people to believe that for the loss of her son and husband she had become demented and had destroyed herself.
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
He supposed that Wiggins had become demented, and that he was in the presence of a maniac.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George
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