comatose
IPA: kˈoʊmʌtoʊs
verb
- (rare, colloquial, nonstandard) To make comatose; to send into, or as if into, a coma.
adjective
- In a coma: unconscious.
- (informal) Drowsy or lethargic.
- (informal) Fast asleep.
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Examples of "comatose" in Sentences
- I know what _comatose_ means, and I thought that comatose was a good way to stay until I figured out what was going on.
- They kept complaining about pain and kept getting more and more narcotics in response to their complaints until they were comatose from the drugs.
- He was comatose from the raging infection in his left hand and could not tell the compassionate, but practical, pilot who he was or where to take him so they left him at the spring of Asclepios.
- A group, National Prayer Movement, has decried what it described as the comatose state of the nation owing to the sickness of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, saying the situation is most unfortunate.
- Johnny Got His Gun, wherein a maimed soldier, rigidly comatose, is agonizingly aware of his surroundings while utterly unable to communicate even a hint of his own sentience to those around his bed.
- And I could have gone to the hospital, because their father was there (albeit half-comatose from the stomach flu – I kept shoving phenergan from my own stash down his throat with Gatorade and he stayed home, too), but you know what?
- In order to ensure that all people are protected, as the Republicans say they are concerned with, we are introducing The Terry Schiavo bill, mandating that insurance companies must provide coverage for the helpless people in comatose states for as long as the family desires it.
- But seriously, is the story of a traumatized father searching to help his long-term comatose son at a strange clinic where the staff are all lunatics, an area motorcycle gang steals brain fluid, and a child's comic book features rape, murder, and lethal discrimination all that much lighter, bro?
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