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Webster 1913 Edition
Demented
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demented
demented
English
Adjective
demented (comparative more demented, superlative most demented)
- Insane or mentally ill.
- 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
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- Suffering from dementia.
- (informal) Crazy; ridiculous.
- a demented idea
Translations
insane or mentally ill
suffering from dementia
Verb
demented
- simple past tense and past participle of dement