half-drowned

British  

adjective

1. nearly dead or killed by immersion in liquid

   half-drowned crewmen lay on the planks

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Example Sentences

“If you’d seen that poor half-drowned critter peering up out of that bookcase, you wouldn’t have asked either. I believe in leaving well enough alone, my boy.”

From Literature

When youths age out of foster care, “we throw them in the river only to fish them out half-drowned downstream,” says Garen.

From Los Angeles Times

They had been replaced by dead or dying half-drowned wasps.

From BBC

Others were soaking wet and half-drowned from swimming across ponds and creeks.

From Literature

Soon after, his view turned from disapproving to downright apocalyptic — in sculptures and installations of Teletubbies dressed in riot gear, of human heads and hands bundled into shopping carts, of Manhattan half-drowned by rising seas.

From New York Times