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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a coma.

Etymologies

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coma +‎ -like

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Examples

  • She chugged pots of coffee as if she had known no other thirst; she ingested caffeine pills until she felt like her heart would explode; and still, a comalike sleep would be upon her before dawn.

    Automatic Typewriter Brianne Baxtali 2011

  • It could hardly have been the Mountain Dew, but Googie collapsed into a comalike sleep for a couple of hours after it.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • So far, he has been in a coma or a comalike state.

    CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009 2009

  • You're exactly right; he remains in a comalike state in a hospital right now.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2009 2009

  • As I sat beside her, silently meditating, she seemed to slip into a comalike state.

    Cell-Level Healing Joyce Whiteley Hawkes 2006

  • In the morning, a nurse told us that they had to sedate Tupac and induce a comalike state because he kept struggling to get out of the bed.

    Thru My Eyes Gobi 2005

  • Before Meredith can leave, Cabbage Patch Dad wakes up, calling out in a gravely comalike voice.

    grey’s anatomy recap : gratitude as an excuse for turkey (season 2, episode 9) | Seattle Metblogs 2005

  • In the morning, a nurse told us that they had to sedate Tupac and induce a comalike state because he kept struggling to get out of the bed.

    Thru My Eyes Gobi 2005

  • Thane lapsed once more into a deep, almost comalike sleep.

    A Man Alone Mckenna, Lindsay 2001

  • After several hours of this comalike trance his body took on a faint phosphorescence.

    Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000

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