half-dead
Britishadjective
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They’re half-dead, their money lines less stable, their leadership gone.
Choi has said of the story, and her restraint makes this book about 10-year-old Louisa, who is found half-dead on a beach, and her missing father.
From Los Angeles Times
When the lights come back up, Gaga is now the woman in white, lying in the sand, half-dead among piles of discarded human remains.
From Salon
Win two do-or-die games for a team that suddenly feels like it’s already half-dead?
From Los Angeles Times
Dear reader, please do not judge the true-crimey cover of this early-2000s reissue — though that is what nearly made me leave it in the street, where it languished in a pile of autumn leaves and half-dead kitchen appliances.
From New York Times
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