lobotomized

past tense of lobotomize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobotomized
Verb
  • While in most places these efforts succeeded in the short term, over time the lived realities—particularly the everyday violence—of military rule undermined support for the royal cause, dooming efforts to resuscitate the British Empire in America.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Whatever desire the audience might have to root for Kerr is undermined by his mounting failures in the ring and his growing friction with Dawn.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Tubs are available to rent by the hour and are fully drained and sanitized between uses.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • For places where water can’t be drained, like ponds and fountains, use mosquito dunks or bits that contain bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, BTI, a naturally occurring bacterium that kills mosquito larvae but is harmless to pets, birds and other wildlife.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The day before, during Erik’s hearing, the relatives had emotionally exhausted themselves, the cousins said.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • He is weakened, and yet his opponents underestimate his continuing appeal with voters exhausted by decades of political dysfunction.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly everything weakened, from Big Tech companies like Nvidia and Apple to stocks of smaller companies looking to get past uncertainty about tariffs and trade.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Eighteen packages of European Union sanctions and dozens more from the United States, United Kingdom and others have weakened Russia’s economy – but not its resolve to carry on fighting.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Any cell drifting in the skies is blasted with UV rays and desiccated.
    Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Red jalapeños are tasty in fresh salsas, stir-fries, and dehydrated spice blends, but green jalapeños are the best choice for jalapeño poppers.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Sriracha was found in a car engine and had a 108-degree fever and was dehydrated.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Lobotomized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobotomized. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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