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lobotomized

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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.
lobotomized, lobotomised [ləʊˈbɒtəmaɪzd]
adj
Informal apathetic, sluggish, and zombie-like
[from lobotomize (chiefly US) to perform a lobotomy on]


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And every American soldier left sightless, crippled, lobotomized, or permanently disfigured from combat injuries experiences a life-altering loss.
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Here's a crude sample from just last month: "Art theory has begun to play such a dominant role in art school that I feel it has lobotomized many young creative minds," Aaron Rose wrote in LA Weekly (October 28).
On the ground: it may be true, as Aldous Huxley once wrote, that "a ... by Artforum International
Without this inner world the child then becomes a mechanical reflection of his environment & responds to it--which is exactly as if he had been lobotomized or had some part of his brain cut away.
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