Definition of comatose
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She lay in a comatose state.
the city's downtown has been comatose for years
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The funnier and ultimately endearing bond blossoms between Nanjiani and his comatose girlfriend’s blunt-speaking dad, Terry, played by Ray Romano, the co-creator and star of, among other things, Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Jim Reid's insouciant, comatose bellows are nearly opposite the Ronettes now-iconic, well-mannered harmonies.
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Palmer was comatose for eight days, coach Jevon Glenn said.
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After ingesting the drugs, patients enter a deep comatose state in roughly 15 minutes and die about 30 minutes to a few hours later, Duncan said.
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Earlier this month, though, Warmbier was released and returned home nearly comatose, a result of extensive brain damage.
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The already tense dynamic with North Korea intensified after Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old Ohio native held captive in North Korea for 17 months on spurious charges of subversion, was returned home last week in a near-comatose state.
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He was imprisoned for 17 months before being returned to the US, comatose, on June 13.
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Warmbier was comatose when he was returned to Cincinnati late on June 13 after being held by the North Korean government for 17 months.
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Origin and Etymology of comatose
French comateux, from Greek kōmat-, kōma —see 1coma
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