semiconscious
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- semiconsciously adverb
- semiconsciousness noun
Etymology
Origin of semiconscious
Example Sentences
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Some patients, terrified or semiconscious, tugged at his sleeve when he squeezed through the halls.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
The rescue workers found the dog on the second floor, where it was in a semiconscious state.
From Fox News • Mar. 15, 2022
Not only had he lived, he was emerging from his semiconscious state.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2019
Maybe I had just awakened from a nap, feeling fresh and alive, yet in that semiconscious state of relocating the world.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016
The grove had been sprayed with parathion some two and a half weeks earlier; the residues that reduced them to retching, half-blind, semiconscious misery were sixteen to nineteen days old.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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