What does half dead mean?
Half dead means Halfway dead; only partially alive..
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Halfway dead; only partially alive..
But even after he was beyond the danger zone, he still felt halfdead.
Until the day King Nax had seized him and shattered his legs—not broken them, but shattered them, eight men taking turns with a mallet—and then sent him home, halfdead, to his wife, Aliss, in the northern Dells.
Some may be halfdead physically; they need people to visit them in the hospital or in their homes. But there are many more who are halfdead in other ways.
[...] from a vantage point of security, the lawyer is taught to ask the question from the vantage point of one lying halfdead by the side of the road.
Use half dead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Half dead means Halfway dead; only partially alive..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But even after he was beyond the danger zone, he still felt halfdead.
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