case

to case - verb

To maim someone's brain in a surreptitious attempt to silence and/or discredit them.

"Case" refers to the main character in Neuromancer, the book on which the Matrix was based. In Neuromancer, Case is poisoned by former crime bosses to give him symptoms of ALS, so that he can never use computers again.

1) The government didn't appreciate the attention he brought to the NSA's surveillance, so they cased him with bedbug poison.

2) I really don't know what happened to him. One week he was fine and the next he could barely carry on a conversation. I think he got cased by his CIA handler.

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