Most people who are not religious prefer to be completely dead rather than half dead.
They preferred a daughter half dead or four-fifths dead to no daughter at all.
So the local authorities are carrying a register that is virtually half dead; it should be kept alive.
These ordnance factories must be efficient, and yet they are really half dead.
It appears to be either tied up or stunned, because it appears to be half dead already.
They broke her left arm completely and left her half dead.
The plumes of these beautiful birds are cut from them before they are half dead during the breeding season, and the young ones are left to starve to death.
The children's story is bolstered by the fact that they look half dead.
