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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Imperfectly conscious; not fully conscious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Half conscious; imperfectly conscious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Neither fully conscious nor unconscious, partially aware but confused or distracted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations

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Examples

  • Is it a semiconscious daze that is halfway between sleeping and waking?

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • The worst off was Sister Muriel, a seventy-year-old Protestant missionary who was lying semiconscious on her side on the floor.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Unconscious and semi-unconscious partygoers were scattered throughout the home, and one man was found engaging in a sexual act with a semiconscious female, who was later determined to be his girlfriend, police said.

    No Drugs Found At Wash. House Where 12 Fell Ill The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • So there I was, driving the Hawk down Ibn Gvirol street, a semiconscious fireman in the passenger seat and a rather too conscious one somewhere in the back, where I couldn't see him because the right-wing mirror had just been broken by a flying bicycle, rider included.

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  • In many countries you are likely to have to pay bribes not to be arrested, and in the case of a scuffle their attitude is usually baton/pistolwhip both people until semiconscious, drag to custody, THEN ask questions.

    Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Two of the semiconscious bodies were Ferengi, and the other was Klingon.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Two of the semiconscious bodies were Ferengi, and the other was Klingon.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • I suspect that a lot of this is because my brain confabulates details in that semiconscious stage just before waking, patching in cause and effect and rationalizations to explain just why I and the cast of Firefly are on a mission to replace the Pope with a robot double.

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  • The worst off was Sister Muriel, a seventy-year-old Protestant missionary who was lying semiconscious on her side on the floor.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • The man, who was identified as Vangelis Kapatos, landed on his back and was found semiconscious by officers responding to a 911 call from a parking-garage attendant who witnessed the fall in front of a building on West 45th Street in Hell's Kitchen.

    Man Survives Apparent Suicide Jump Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

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