half-drowned

adjective

1. nearly dead or killed by immersion in liquid

   half-drowned crewmen lay on the planks

Example Sentences

When youths age out of foster care, “we throw them in the river only to fish them out half-drowned downstream,” says Garen.

From Los Angeles Times

They had been replaced by dead or dying half-drowned wasps.

From BBC

Others were soaking wet and half-drowned from swimming across ponds and creeks.

From Literature

Soon after, his view turned from disapproving to downright apocalyptic — in sculptures and installations of Teletubbies dressed in riot gear, of human heads and hands bundled into shopping carts, of Manhattan half-drowned by rising seas.

From New York Times

In the opening moments of the show, Hazel flounders onscreen looking like a half-drowned mermaid — wet, disheveled, in a scaly green dress and smeared eye makeup.

From New York Times