lobotomize
/ləˈbɑtəmaɪz/
verb
- To perform a lobotomy on someone, a medical procedure that cuts connections in the brain's frontal lobe.
- The surgeon decided not to lobotomize the patient after reviewing newer treatment options.
- In the past, doctors would lobotomize patients with severe mental illness as a last resort.
- Thankfully, modern medicine rarely requires doctors to lobotomize anyone.
- To make someone or something dull, unresponsive, or lacking in creativity or emotion.
- The repetitive video game can lobotomize your brain if you play it for hours.
- She felt the long meeting would lobotomize her into a zombie.
- Working in that boring office all day seemed to lobotomize his sense of humor.
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