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
"I was taken from there half-dead when our forces liberated this place."
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2022
He felt guilt and remorse until a few months later, in January 2018, when he went out to empty the trash and discovered an abandoned, half-dead orchid sitting next to the dumpster.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022
One survived two notorious concentration camps, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and was discovered by British troops on a pile of bodies, half-dead with typhus.
From New York Times • May 4, 2020
And I have to explain to her about everything: finding my girl, feeding my girl, and then finding her again, sprawled on the ground, half-dead, and I start crying again.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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