half-drowned

adjective

nearly dead or killed by immersion in liquid
half-drowned crewmen lay on the planks

Their fur gets all wet and roughened up, and they look more like half-drowned rats than pretty, fluffy bunnies.

But three others lay where their comrades had dragged them half drowned, and stunned by the blows they had received.

You get half-drowned, or drowned altogether, before you discover your danger.

No feeble voice is on the gale: no answer half drowned in the storm!

Once he leaped out of the boat and made for shore, and had to be pursued and rescued, exhausted and half-drowned.

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