dement

Borrowed from Middle French dement, from Latin demens; verb from Vulgar Latin dementare (“to deceive; to drive mad”), also from Latin dēmēns (“demented, mad”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɛnt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dəˈmɛnt/, /diˈmɛnt/

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dement (comparative more dement, superlative most dement)

1. (now rare) Demented. [from 15th c.]

dement (third-person singular simple present dements, present participle dementing, simple past and past participle demented)

1. (transitive) To make (someone) demented; to drive mad. [from 16th c.]
2. (intransitive, medicine) To show signs of dementia; to develop dementia. [from 19th c.]

dement (plural dements)

1. (chiefly medicine, now rare) Someone afflicted with dementia. [from 19th c.]
   • 1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 115:

     The patients are more or less chronic dements, sufficiently harmless and trustworthy to be employed in farm labour and sufficiently intelligent to be of use.

• “dement”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Learned borrowing from Latin dēmēns, dēmentem.

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dement m or f (masculine and feminine plural dements)

1. demented

dement m or f by sense (plural dements)

1. dement (person affected by dementia)

• demència
• ment

• “dement”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Latin demens, dementis.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛmɛnt]

dement m anim

1. moron (personal insult implying stupidity)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hlupák

• “dement”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from French dément, from Latin dēmēns, dēmentis.

• IPA^(key): /dəˈmɛnt/, /deːˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: de‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

dement (comparative dementer, superlative dementst)

1. senile, demented

• dementeren
• dementie

Borrowed from Latin demens, dementis.

• IPA^(key): /deˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: de‧ment

dement (strong nominative masculine singular dementer, comparative dementer, superlative am dementesten)

1. demented
2. suffering from dementia

• Demenz

• “dement” in Duden online
• “dement”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

dēment

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēmō

dement (indefinite singular dement, definite singular and plural demente)

1. demented, suffering from dementia

• demens

• “dement” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dement” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

dement (indefinite singular dement, definite singular and plural demente)

1. demented, suffering from dementia

• demens

• “dement” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French dément.

dement m (plural demenți, feminine equivalent dementă)

1. demented person

dement (comparative dementare, superlative dementast)

1. demented (suffering from dementia)

• demens

• flokig

• “dement”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “dement”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)