Ape and Mental

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Ape verb - To use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior.

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Mental and ape are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mental" instead an adjective "Ape".

Mental adjective - Having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind.

Usage example: humane treatment of mental patients

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Ape and mental are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ape" instead an adjective "Mental".

Nearby Words: mentality, mentally, mentation

An episode has a gorilla who had plastic surgery and mental conditioning(!) to make it look and act human, but would turn ape and kill when given an auditory cue (and a banana).

Source: Animal Assassin
In "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", the horrific supercomputer AM captures five humans to torture for its own pleasure, and chooses to torture one by mutating his (formerly handsome) body into an ape-thing beyond recognition, complete with dulled mental capacities.

Source: Body Horror / Literature

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