Half-dead

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of halfdead. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

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medium dead

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"Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut."

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