Meanings of half demented in English

They are noisy and seem half demented in their frantic efforts to make sales.

Many poor creatures became half demented by terror, and scarcely knew what they said.

It was half sensible, half demented, she told herself.

He had driven Miss Abbott half demented, but he had given himself no time to concert a plan.

Buddy Briskow was half demented.

The husband is half demented.

I was half demented.

I sat staring at it, half demented, utterly helpless to do more, my own body throbbing with a thousand agonies.

He was on one of these foraging expeditions when Joe discovered him-emaciated, dirty, and half demented through terror of the gallows.

The Germans left alive in the trenches, half demented with fright, surrounded by a welter of dead and dying men, mostly surrendered.

He clapped his hands to his forehead like one who is half demented by his troubles, and rushed out of the room.

One father had two sons grow up strong and vigorous, mentally and physically, while a third son was weak, irresolute, fretful, suspicious and half demented.