However, they have both become senile and have regressed to a childlike state.

I used to revert into a childlike state and grinned at their praise and parental approval.

Upon returning to California, Tex began regressing to a childlike state.

Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a childlike state.

Cut off from the mental crutch humanity has used for so long, the entire population (save Ryan) are reduced to a childlike mental state.

Both women survive, but Kylara is left in a childlike state and Brekke suffers deep depression.

It's neither easy viewing nor easy living: the game has worn these men down to a childlike state, which makes them ultimately compelling.

After eight days, she came out of a coma, first in a vegetative state, then in a childlike state.

It seems to encourage people to maintain a childlike state of purity.

An accident that occurred when the twins were young has kept Nicky in a perpetually childlike state.