dead-and-alive

Adjective

Meaning

dead-and-alive (comparative more dead-and-alive, superlative most dead-and-alive)

Synonym of dead-alive

Examples

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs. Walden. Henry David Thoreau

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