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• n  a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli

• Sequoia ends when Gato claws Bergman into a semicoma and Malibu butts him off a cliff.
• Barefooted and almost heat-prostrated, Anita took advantage of the excitement to slump dramatically into a semicoma.
• Early one morning this week, Harold Ickes, ill for many weeks, lapsed into a semicoma at Headwaters Farm, his 200-acre Maryland estate, 15 miles outside Washington.