All 8 Uses of
demented
in
Angela's Ashes
- The champion pint drinker is always on the dole and sometimes he even drinks that and drives me so demented I wind up in the lunatic asylum.†
Chpt 2
- There isn't enough coal to cook the dinner, the water isn't boiling anymore and she says she's demented with worry.†
Chpt 3
- Sometimes he's like my father and drinks the dole itself and that's why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.†
Chpt 4
- When he's older he'll go to the pub like his father, drink pints galore, stick the finger down the throat to bring it all up, drink more pints, win the bets and bring the money home to his mother to keep her from going demented.†
Chpt 4
- Och, och, och, he says, and I wonder if he's going demented like Mrs. Molloy, in and out of the lunatic asylum, but he says, Is that what you were worried about last night?†
Chpt 4
- You had me demented.†
Chpt 6
- they carted him off to the City Home, where they keep old people who are helpless or demented.
Chpt 7 *demented = not of sound mind (insane)
- Peter says, Dear Miss Hope, I'm going out with a fellow from Ireland named McCaffrey and he has his hands all over me and his thing pushing against my belly button and I'm demented not knowing what to do.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(demented as in: demented lyrics) acting crazy
or:
suffering from cognitive dementia (mental deterioration)