living corpse

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A person who is alive but appears or feels dead; an invalid.

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  • For over a year he lay in his hospital bed, a living corpse.
  • The patient became a living corpse after the accident.
  • She felt like a living corpse during her depression.
  • The stroke left him as a living corpse, unable to move or speak.
  • Years of addiction had turned him into a living corpse.
  • The invalid was nothing more than a living corpse in the nursing home.
  • After the diagnosis, he described himself as a living corpse.
  • The comatose patient appeared to be a living corpse.
  • Her chronic illness made her feel like a living corpse.
  • He was reduced to a living corpse after the devastating news.