half-dead

adjective

1. informal,  very tired

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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“That men who have retreated for ten days, sleeping on the ground and half-dead with fatigue, should be able to take up their rifles and attack when the bugle sounds, is a thing upon which we never counted,” said German general Alexander von Kluck.

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Win two do-or-die games for a team that suddenly feels like it’s already half-dead?

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In August, the Louvre would be half-dead.

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