half-dead
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They’re half-dead, their money lines less stable, their leadership gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Win two do-or-die games for a team that suddenly feels like it’s already half-dead?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
January, 1742: A company of starving, half-dead men on a ramshackle raft washed up on the Brazilian shore with an extraordinary tale.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
"I was taken from there half-dead when our forces liberated this place."
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2022
I could be half-dead in an intensive care unit and that would be the first question Lou Ann asked.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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