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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person affected with aphasia; an aphasic.

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Examples

  • Well, intolerant people are more likely to be aphasiac combined with Thought Dissociative Disorder.

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  • At the story's beginning, a drug damages Rodney and makes him completely and incurably aphasiac; the only dent in the aphasia is an Ancient device which allows Rodney to do pictoral mental communication with Ancient gene carriers, just barely enough that they don't need to ship him home immediately.

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  • A more immediate crisis overrode the problems of being a permanent aphasiac.

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  • At the age of ten, she witnessed her entire family being murdered by the Yason, causing her to become aphasiac.

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