Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
semiconscious , neitherunconscious nor fully aware
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- noun marginal consciousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Was she a pliant victim drugged into semiconsciousness by others or a strong-willed woman who told people what to do?
Anna Nicole Smith Verdicts Will Resonate For Doctors, Patients Using Prescription Pain Medicine AP 2010
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Was she a pliant victim drugged into semiconsciousness by others or a strong-willed woman who told people what to do?
Anna Nicole Smith Verdicts Will Resonate For Doctors, Patients Using Prescription Pain Medicine AP 2010
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We hadn't slept in the same room for at least two years, a side effect of the nighttime musical bed routine that parents of so many young children play in semiconsciousness for years on end.
The Divorce Generation Susan Gregory Thomas 2011
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Was she a pliant victim drugged into semiconsciousness by others or a strong-willed woman who told people what to do?
Anna Nicole Smith Verdicts Will Resonate For Doctors, Patients Using Prescription Pain Medicine AP 2010
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The third ring of his cell phone roused Cal Regan to semiconsciousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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The third ring of his cell phone roused Cal Regan to semiconsciousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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The third ring of his cell phone roused Cal Regan to semiconsciousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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She overflowed his senses, inducing fits of euphoria and semiconsciousness.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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The third ring of his cell phone roused Cal Regan to semiconsciousness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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At best, he was drugged into semiconsciousness and put in front of a TV.
Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited 2009
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