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adjective affected with or characterized by coma.
lacking alertness or energy; torpid: comatose from lack of sleep.
Origin of comatose 1745–55; <Greek komat- (stem of kôma coma1 ) + -ose1
OTHER WORDS FROM comatose com·a·tose·ly, adverb com·a·tose·ness, com·a·tos·i·ty [kom-uh -tos -i-tee], /ˌkɒm əˈtɒs ɪ ti/, noun Words nearby comatose comandante, Comaneci, coma scale, comate, comatic, comatose , comatulid, Comayagua, comb, Combahee, combat
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Example sentences from the Web for comatose By the time he arrived there at 3:22 a.m., with a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit, he was comatose .
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The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.
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On Tuesday, police found the 49-year-old Dekhar, known as Toumi, comatose in a car in a parking lot on the outskirts of Paris.
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The excitement it caused can be likened to a desperate family's reaction to an imaginary movement made by a comatose patient.
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And once again, it is outsmarting the comatose lawmakers and regulators.
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It lies in a comatose silence for many years and then suddenly springs to life.
From One Generation to Another | Henry Seton Merriman
He saw she was passing into a comatose state, without his forcible dictation.
Professor Huskins | Lettie M. Cummings
Poor Weymouth, still in a comatose condition, we removed there (Smith having secured the key from the astonished agent).
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu | Sax Rohmer
Many much more recent poets seem to have achieved their hugest popular successes whilst in a comatose state.
Richard Wagner | John F. Runciman
The heart is quiet, the lungs in a comatose condition, and the blood stagnant.
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British Dictionary definitions for comatose / (ˈkəʊməˌtəʊs , -ˌtəʊz ) /
adjective in a state of coma
torpid; lethargic
Derived forms of comatose comatosely , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to comatose senseless, cold, dead, dopey, drowsy, drugged, insensible, lethargic, out, out cold, sleepy, sluggish, somnolent, stupefied, stupid, torpid, hebetudinous, slumberous, stuporous, dead to the world
Medical definitions for comatose adj. Of, relating to, or affected with coma.
Marked by lethargy; torpid.
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