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catatonic
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  • Mac was virtually catatonic.†  (source)
  • I just lay there, almost catatonic, as my mother hovered, perpetually near, breaking the silence every few minutes with a question-phrased-as-a-statement.†  (source)
  • Chuck sat dumbly, staring at the walls, while Vince stared nearly as catatonically into the screen of his laptop.†  (source)
    catatonically = in a manner related to a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
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  • I pull off girl-almost-catatonic-with-joy without a hitch.†  (source)
    catatonic = characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • Blanked for nearly three minutes, holding the rat in the air, a perfect case of waxy catatonia.†  (source)
    catatonia = a medical condition in which there is a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • But the TV audience was mostly catatonics and depressives, who were disinclined to move.†  (source)
  • Paranoids, schizoids, cycloids, semicatatonics, men who claimed to have gone to heaven in flying saucers, women who had burned their children's sex organs off with Bic lighters, alcoholics, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, manic-depressives, suicidals.†  (source)
    semicatatonics = people who have a partial tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • They go catatonic, all staring eyes and drool, and if their families can't afford to keep them they get shoved into the Crypts as well, to molder and die.†  (source)
    catatonic = characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • And if you had your choice of having Saddam Hussein or Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler or Sarah Byrnes after you, you'd pick A, B, and C only, before you picked D. On the off chance she's not faking, if I just penetrated her catatonia for a second before it regained control, then nothing has changed.†  (source)
    catatonia = a medical condition in which there is a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • In the end a couple of catatonics were teamed up and Daisy's room was ready for her arrival on November fifteenth.†  (source)
  • The ants I encountered were no longer catatonic.†  (source)
    catatonic = characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • But my conscience doesn't have to spend the next two years making inane teatime chatter, bored to the point of catatonia.†  (source)
    catatonia = a medical condition in which there is a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
  • She had wrapped all the furniture, some of it holding catatonics, and the TV and the sprinkler system on the ceiling in toilet paper.†  (source)
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