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suspended animation

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suspended animation
a temporary cessation of the vital functions, as by freezing an organism


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Pickwick was so extreme, that they might have remained in exactly the same relative situations until the suspended animation of the lady was restored, had it not been for a most beautiful and touching expression of filial affection on the part of her youthful son.
The nearest he ever got to meditation was a sort of trance-like state, a kind of suspended animation in which his mind drifted sluggishly like a log in a backwater.
I call it suspended animation from pressure on the brain
 
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