If you describe someone as being in a catatonic state, you mean that they are not moving or responding at all, usually as a result of illness, shock, or drugs.
[medicine, literary]
...and the traumatised heroine sinks into a catatonic trance.
Examples of 'catatonic' in a sentence
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Sometimes she panicked, sometimes she was almost catatonic.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
`They're like a couple of catatonic animals that somebody's experimented on,' Andy laughed.
David Cavanagh MUSIC FOR BOYS (2002)
It was over, she had to get used to it, and not verge on catatonic when anyone came within five feet of her.