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Example sentences from the Web for half-deadBut tomorrow there will be a glowing sun in the gray, half-dead forest where we must work and live. A Nobel Winner's Positive Gaze|Eliza Griswold|October 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST Magalhas had found him half-dead with hunger and fatigue in the neighboring forest. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon|Jules Verne All, men and animals, are half-dead with fatigue and labour for breath. Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)|Sven Hedin Happily the work was soon done, and in front of Palo lay a heap of half-dead, quivering animals. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific|Felix Speiser
Fouquet had just retired to his room, still smiling, but more than half-dead. The Vicomte de Bragelonne|Alexandre Dumas They are good Samaritans to all the half-dead bait he from time to time throws overboard. Grim: The Story of a Pike|Svend Fleuron
adjectiveBritish informal very tired Words nearby half-deadhalf-covered, half crown, half-cup, half-cut, half-day, half-dead, half deck, half-deserted, half-digested, half dime, half dollar Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |