senile
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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
What makes "The Nanny" unique is the breath of fresh air brought by curly-haired, mini-skirted Fran, with her yenta mother and her senile yet groovy Romanian immigrant grandmother.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022
By this time the truck was little more than four wheels and an engine and the engine was so crotchety and sullen and senile that it required expert care and consideration.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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