半はん死し半はん生しょう

noun

half-dead; more dead than alive

Describes a state of extreme exhaustion, injury, or near-death. Often used hyperbolically.

• 彼かれは半はん死し半はん生しょう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 in a half-dead state.

• 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 after pulling all-nighters.