LOBOTOMIZED Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

lobotomized

verb

past tense of lobotomize

as in undermined

to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality fear of saying anything controversial has so lobotomized this book on geopolitics that it fails to say anything at all

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Recent Examples of lobotomized This corporate risk aversion has essentially lobotomized the system. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Neither of those has happened, with Destiny 2 now lobotomized just a few years after the deal and Marathon struggling to find a playerbase. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 All’s Fair is a 2010s Shonda Rhimes procedural on steroid shots and Goop supplements, if everyone in the writers’ room had been freshly lobotomized. — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025

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But the Falkland Islands have undermined what should be a close relationship based on common interests.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
Yust argues that this created a burden the defense did not have to bear, effectively promised evidence the attorney should have known would not be admitted and undermined the defense’s credibility with the jury.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of undermined

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This is the league, remember, where a man (Harvey Updyke) confessed to poisoning the trees at Auburn on a radio show after Alabama lost to the Tigers, and a coach (Jackie Sherrill at Mississippi State) castrated a bull to motivate his squad.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Those expectations got castrated because of last season’s early struggles.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

Definition of castrated

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The attackers used the IP addresses to host a smart contract that drained about $235,000 in bitcoin from people trying to visit the Celer Bridge cryptocurrency exchange.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
In France, for example, officials have drained glacier lakes to head off potential flooding, Gagliardini says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of drained

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Deery becomes the latest player who exhausted their eligibility to sue for an extra year of eligibility.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026
Your eyes will thank you College students often fall asleep without removing their contacts, especially when exhausted from late-night studying or over-intoxicated from partying.

— Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

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Economic data for July showed retail sales and urban investment both weakened, adding to pressure on Beijing to step up support for the remainder of the year.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
This view suggests that the sense of shame was collectively weakened by a series of self-interested actors who shattered the social firmament and opened up the gates to chaos.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of weakened

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The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 May 2026
Johansson plays her with a tough edge to match her Queens accent, but Hester is clearly petrified by this perfect storm of ugly events.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026

Definition of petrified

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Exposing the dental pulp and cleaning out the cavity’s contents also would have deadened the nerves and blood vessels there, leading to pain relief, Zubova said.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Merrill had the same impulse—the need to become a self not necessarily free of all that money could buy but not crippled or deadened by it, either.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026

Definition of deadened

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Strewn around the edges of the room are ceramic casts of the pocked fruit, brown and desiccated like a pile of skulls.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Olive trees, desiccated from the Xylella fastidiosa bacterial epidemic, are consumed by fire and slump to the ground in a burnished black heap.

— Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026

Definition of desiccated

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