What does more dead than alive mean?

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more dead than alive

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

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dead or alive in articulo mortis on death's doorstep

dead or alive in articulo mortis on death's doorstep

What does more dead than alive mean?: Very close to death; in extremely bad condition.

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