Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb Medicine To perform a lobotomy on (a patient).
- transitive verb Informal To reduce the intelligence, alertness, or sensitivity of.
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- verb To perform a
lobotomy . - verb To remove function.
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Examples
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Best line: “You could lobotomize him with the power saw and nobody would notice the difference.”
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(Just like they ‘won’ on the Napster thing, but had to keep their shitty lobotomize corporate knockoff using the same logo.)
Us versus Them 2009
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When wealthy matron Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) enlists Chicago brain surgeon Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift), to lobotomize niece Catherine (Taylor), institutionalized since the death of Violet's son Sebastian the previous summer, he sets out to discover what happened to the young woman.
John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011
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Best line: “You could lobotomize him with the power saw and nobody would notice the difference.”
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BRB, I need to lobotomize myself so I forget I ever saw this trailer ...
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When wealthy matron Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) enlists Chicago brain surgeon Dr. John Cukrowicz (Clift), to lobotomize niece Catherine (Taylor), institutionalized since the death of Violet's son Sebastian the previous summer, he sets out to discover what happened to the young woman.
John Farr: Elizabeth Taylor: Star John Farr 2011
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HuffPost Hill is filing from the Bay Area right now, we try to explain to folks why living in -- and reporting on -- Washington makes us want to lobotomize ourselves with a rolled up copy of CQ Today.
HUFFPOST HILL - Joe Lieberman Pushes Grandma Off A Cliff Eliot Nelson 2011
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Would you be willing to lobotomize an innocent man?
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(Just like they “won” on the Napster thing, but had to keep their shitty lobotomize corporate knockoff using the same logo.)
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[Protectionists] might fondly wish that highly educated professionals in Asia would be kind enough to lobotomize themselves and go back to farming for the sake of inflating U.S. programmers 'wages.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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