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senile
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  • I'm not senile.  (source)
    senile = with mental weakness caused by old age
  • It's just that before the truth could sink in, everyone went home for the summer, where they spent two months reading about how you're a nutcase and Dumbledore's going senile!  (source)
    senile = becoming mentally weak due to old age
  • Otherwise, she ignored them and spent her time sewing and mumbling to herself, contentedly senile.  (source)
    senile = with mental weakness caused by old age
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  • Does Sophocles actually say any of these things? No, of course not. He's old, not senile. You say these things openly, they give you hemlock or something. He doesn't have to say them, though; everyone who sees the play can draw his own conclusions:  (source)
    senile = with mental weakness caused by old age
  • At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.  (source)
    senility = mental weakness caused by old age
  • Out came Prof, cackled senilely (looked even worse than earlier!)†  (source)
  • The fact that "old" may be synonymous with "senile" doesn't occur to them.  (source)
    senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
  • DRACO: Don't play the senility card with us, old man.†  (source)
    senility = mental weakness caused by old age
  • Suppose that we quicken the tempo of human life till men are senile at thirty.  (source)
    senile = weak form old age
  • This was a further indication to my grandmother that Lydia's senility was in advance of her own.†  (source)
    senility = mental weakness caused by old age
  • VARYA. He's been mumbling away for three years. We're used to that. YASHA. Senile decay.  (source)
    Senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
  • Senility setting in.†  (source)
    Senility = mental weakness caused by old age
  • "Yes, of course, I'm not senile," Uncle Max muttered.†  (source)
    senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
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