catatonic

Example Sentences

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Shiv — who has to be retrieved from the party one deck below — is practically catatonic when she finds out why she has been summoned.

From New York Times

The obvious and most common way to play “emotionally shut down” as to act catatonic.

From New York Times

He plays Mr. Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.

From New York Times

We meticulously record every psychiatrist and medicine, listing the ones that work and don’t, like the one that makes him almost catatonic or another that increases his liver enzymes.

From Los Angeles Times

The day I was set to leave, she sat on the couch, catatonic, unwilling to speak to me or even look in my direction.

From Salon