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comatose

[ kom-uh-tohs, koh-muh- ]

adjective

  1. affected with or characterized by coma.
  2. lacking alertness or energy; torpid:

    comatose from lack of sleep.



comatose

/ -ˌtəʊz; ˈkəʊməˌtəʊs /

adjective

  1. in a state of coma
  2. torpid; lethargic


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Derived Forms

  • ˈcomaˌtosely, adverb

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Other Words From

  • coma·tosely adverb
  • coma·toseness com·a·tos·i·ty [kom-, uh, -, tos, -i-tee], noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of comatose1

1745–55; < Greek komat- (stem of kôma coma 1 ) + -ose 1

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Example Sentences

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.

“Ayatollah Khomeini had a stroke in 1986 and became comatose,” says Khalaji.

The daughter had also been exposed and was comatose before she and her mother each received A 250 cubic centimeter transfusion.

She grew increasingly ill despite a 450 cubic centimeter transfusion and became comatose after five days.

A normal person becomes unconscious—comatose really—in this extreme cold.

The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.

Just after the comatose condition which follows an attack of epilepsy patients are also prone to be very irritable.

He is then quite sure that he will be transported in a comatose condition to the occult reunion.

He looked rather 'comatose,' as Tante called him, except when his botanical emotions were aroused.

In the next bed on the right-hand side was a man who appeared in a comatose state.

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