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Meanings of senile in English

Mentally or physically infirm with age.

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Examples for "gaga"
Examples for "gaga"
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Consumers aren't going as gaga for Google TV as manufacturers had hoped.
Wired
2
Any literature lover will go gaga over any one of these, trust.
Ebony
3
Maybe she thinks she wants this only because you're so gaga about it.
Seeing stars
4
Yet Gaga has played the fact that ARTPOP isn't great quite well.
The Irish Times
5
Lady Gaga had not been aware of the situation, a spokeswoman said.
Reuters
1
He and Edgar were not doddering queens, but men of sovereign authority.
The new yorker
2
He toils as an uninspired poetry teacher and a doddering single dad.
Reuters
3
I'd be a doddering old man before I got through-thirtyyears old.
Mary Wollaston
4
I want you to be with me till we're old and doddering.
Funland
5
Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now!
The Chessmen of Mars
1
The guy who was doing a very credible line in doddery old man.
The Irish Times
2
Some thought his answers revealed a doddery, amnesiac jet-lagged octogenarian.
Reuters
3
He was a little doddery and flat-footed, but he walked reasonably well for a man of eighty-eight.
Atonement
4
And to achieve these goals, Turnball would have to play the soft, doddery reprobate for a while longer.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
5
On more than one occasion, the 86-year-old apologised for appearing doddery, reminding the judges he was a great-grandfather.
BBC
Usage of senile in English
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Producers would rather have her in these senile parts than genuine article.
The new yorker
2
The principal doctor was lost in the imbecilities of a senile optimism.
Eminent Victorians
3
The money-lender insinuatingly pushed the whisky bottle closer to the senile rancher.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
4
A dementia tax is the wrong connection, a punishment for becoming senile.
The Guardian
5
My grandad was pretty senile, but he could still read well enough.
Kafka on the Shore
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Over the comset, a senile navigation beacon husked a request for identification.
Broken angels
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She stood for some minutes meekly contemplating her senile and smirking suitor.
The Mormon Prophet
8
His voice had a note of martyrdom running through its senile quaver.
Roads of Destiny
9
He is, as you say, a senile old man in his dotage.
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
10
Not if the ship is undermanned, and the captain a senile poltroon.
Quicksilver
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Three cases of senile dementia, delusions of grandeur, and frontal lobe changes.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
12
The parlour-maid received her sumptuously, and Praddy's eyes watered with senile tears.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
13
Orthodoxy, blind, blundering, stubborn, senile, is tottering-theundertaker is at the door.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
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Above him the waves chew the shore like something senile and toothless.
The Scar
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He seemed impervious to the fact that the old lady was senile.
The new yorker
16
My father was a half-senile old man who had outlived his time.
Hellfire
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