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Stupor

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stupor
a state of unconsciousness
Stupor 

a condition of immobility and mutism; a symptom in some mental illnesses. The patient does not react to his surroundings or to pain, refuses to answer questions or to eat, and remains fixed in one position. Stupor is generally associated with catatonía; less frequently it is associated with depression or other mental disorders.
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She seemed, having shaken off the stupor of intoxication, to be striving to escape from her executioner.
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She stayed alone in a kind of reverie--a sort of stupor.
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Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.
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