Halfdead

Quick meaning: Halfdead is an adjective meaning Halfway dead; only partially alive.

Meaning

Halfway dead; only partially alive.

Example Sentences

But even after he was beyond the danger zone, he still felt halfdead.

[...] 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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• half dead
• half-dead

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include semidead, half-waking, semi-paralyzed, dead-alive, half-free, lifeless.

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