Adjective
half dead (not comparable)
Alternative form of halfdead
half-dead (not comparable)
Alternative form of halfdead
half-dead
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost. Bobby Fischer
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing. Wallace Stevens
Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. Bill Cosby
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body we are half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we do. Charles Caleb Colton
Before a man learns to hang he is half dead. Danish Proverb
Staring at the television one “half-dead, half-drunk” morning, Choi writes, he became entranced by Emeril Lagasse. Source: Internet