Idiom
half murder
Meaning
The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The angry dog nearly beat the intruder half to death.”
“The fight was so violent that the attacker left his opponent half murdered in the alleyway.”
“The brutal assault left the victim half murdered, requiring months of intensive care to recover from such severe physical trauma.”
Examples
simple
“The angry dog nearly beat the intruder half to death.”
contextual
“The fight was so violent that the attacker left his opponent half murdered in the alleyway.”
complex
“The brutal assault left the victim half murdered, requiring months of intensive care to recover from such severe physical trauma.”
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