Halfdead

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Halfway dead; only partially alive. not-comparable

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

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medium dead

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

Etymology

From Middle English halfdede, from Old English healfdēad (“half-dead”), from Proto-Germanic *halbadaudaz (“halfdead”), equivalent to half- + dead. Cognate with West Frisian healdea (“halfdead”), Dutch halfdood (“halfdead”), German Low German halvdood (“halfdead”), German halbtot (“halfdead”), Swedish halvdöd (“halfdead”).

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