1 (especially BrE) behaving in a crazy way because you are extremely upset or worried:
I've been nearly demented with worry about you. * The children have driven me demented today. * He was crashing about the house like a demented animal.
2 (old-fashioned or medical) having a mental illness
dementedly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is demented a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, demented is tagged as adjective.
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