Definition of "dementing" [dementing]

• Causing dementia. (adjective)
• Undergoing dementia. (adjective)

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• "Quite properly the action taken is usually to provide more help in the form of domiciliary care/daycare/respite care etc since the “abuse” is usually more about people at the end of their tether than anything else - if an eighty year old bloke is screaming at his dementing eighty year old wife and making her cry the answer is not to prosecute, it is to help."
• "It is a chance and unguarded remark from that classic source, the slowly dementing relative, that sets David's life on a new course and one from which he will emerge having made some startling and unexpected discoveries, mostly about himself."
• "Illness, the impossible contradictions of illness, brainpower even dementing, you're formidable, that ruthless honesty, regressions..."