senile

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I asked him about that moment just after it happened, and had asked him whether the president was senile the day before.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024

Especially if a person seems to go senile very quickly, check their vitamin B12!

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

She has no choice but to carry this pregnancy to term, surrounded by jealous novitiates, senile nuns, controlling male leadership and a secret sect of the sisterhood who wear crimson shrouds over their faces.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

She entered hospice care in late December 2022 with senile degeneration of the brain and was treated with the anxiety drug lorazepam and morphine, a painkiller, according to the report.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

Her grandmother is in her eighties, bedridden, all but senile, unable to eat or talk.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri