half dead

Adjective

Meaning

half dead (not comparable)

Alternative form of halfdead

half-dead (not comparable)

Alternative form of halfdead

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

half-dead

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

half dag half damask half day half detached half dime half done