半はん死し

noun

half-dead; near death

Describes a state of being barely alive, often used in expressions like 半死半生 (half-dead, half-alive) or after extreme exhaustion or injury.

• 彼かれは事じ故こで半はん死しの状じょう態たいで病びょう院いんに運はこばれた。

  He was taken to the hospital half-dead after the accident.

• 徹てつ夜や続つづきで半はん死し半はん生しょうだ。

  I'm half-dead from pulling all-nighters.