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- adjective
Barely awake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You will only be a half-awake and half-asleep zombie.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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I grabbed my black silk robe, throwing it on while I stumbled my half-awake ass to the door.
Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011
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Reading through the White House's text of "An Economy Built to Last," any half-awake citizen will notice the words that fail to appear: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, entitlements and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Obama's Maddening, Winning Speech Daniel Henninger 2012
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I grabbed my black silk robe, throwing it on while I stumbled my half-awake ass to the door.
Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011
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Caithe riled on the workbench, half-awake and half in dream.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Robinson, who is now 21 years old, looked half-awake when he walked into the training room for treatment on his left knee, which was swollen so badly you couldn't delineate the kneecap.
A Day in the Life of Denard Robinson John U. Bacon 2011
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He probably thought she looked sweet: confused, tousled, half-awake, like a grumpy little kid.
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The narrative does playfully leave the suggestion that the "night work" performed by Jonas's sleeping self might be the cause of his predicament, perhaps a kind of half-awake dissociative state.
Translated Texts 2010
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Later, half-awake I felt a needle pressing through my chest.
excerpt from a forthcoming novel Frank Hinton 2011
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Caithe riled on the workbench, half-awake and half in dream.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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