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lobotomize
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lo·bot·o·mize  (l-bt-mz, l-)
tr.v. lo·bot·o·mized, lo·bot·o·miz·ing, lo·bot·o·miz·es
1. To perform a lobotomy on (a patient).
2. To deprive (a person) of energy or vitality.
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lobotomize
vt to lobotomize somebodyan jdm eine Lobotomie durchführen


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Minders script the right-wing throwback's every word in the battle to be Mayor of London, lobotomising the Old Etonian to keep him on message.
I could be lobotomising women one minute and riding across the desert wielding a sword the next.
Comparing the others' fluent, empty classics-schooled chatter with the intellectual attainments of Continental administrators from their own generation--with Italy's Amintore Fanfani, for instance, or France's Jacques Soustelle --makes painfully obvious how insignificant these Englishmen's intellectual level was, and would have been even without Moscow lobotomising them.
 
 
 
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