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  • Or maybe a catatonic stupor.†  (source)
  • the book thief featuring: the end of a world—the ninety-eighth day— a war maker—way of the words—a catatonic girl— confessions—ilsa hermann's little black book— some rib-cage planes—and a mountain range of rubble†  (source)
  • Mac was virtually catatonic.†  (source)
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  • They were catatonic with disgust.†  (source)
  • There are a lot of names: depression, catatonia, mania, anxiety, agitation.†  (source)
  • But the TV audience was mostly catatonics and depressives, who were disinclined to move.†  (source)
  • Chuck sat dumbly, staring at the walls, while Vince stared nearly as catatonically into the screen of his laptop.†  (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)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • 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)
  • Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond?†  (source)
  • In the end a couple of catatonics were teamed up and Daisy's room was ready for her arrival on November fifteenth.†  (source)
  • The blond woman, subject two, appeared catatonic with fear, but the dark-haired woman seemed curiously serene.†  (source)
  • 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)
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