"despair" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

despair sustantivo

despair + verbo
Kolokacji: 9
Despair washes • despair fills • Despair threatens • despair comes • despair deepens • ...
verbo + despair
Kolokacji: 10
feel despair • shake in despair • see despair • express despair • throw up in despair • ...
adjetivo + despair
Kolokacji: 34
utter despair • deep despair • black despair • total despair • mock despair • ...
(4) total, absolute, sheer
Kolokacji: 3
(6) quiet, silent
Kolokacji: 2
(7) dark, bitter, dull, grim
Kolokacji: 4
1. dark despair = ponura rozpacz dark despair
2. bitter despair = gorzka rozpacz bitter despair
3. dull despair = tępa rozpacz dull despair
4. grim despair = ponura rozpacz grim despair
  • Fleeting salvation had left behind grim despair.
  • Bora's optimism was easier to hear than Massouf's grim despair.
  • Hollis shook his head in grim despair.
  • Gersen stood back, a tide of grim despair rising within him.
  • Margaret was now in a state of grim despair over her own future.
  • The creek was far off now, across a sea of bobbing black helms, and the iron taste of grim despair rose in Sharantyr's mouth.
  • The end of life is always sad, but when pain and other problems are controlled, it does not have to be a period of grim despair.
  • The Americans looked at each other in grim despair, afraid to voice the thought that was uppermost in all their minds.
  • Bond's body responded, but afterwards she cried bitterly into her pillow and Bond went to his room in grim despair.
  • The script alternates between ironic humor and grim despair, with neither coming off very strongly.
(8) urban, numb
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + despair
Kolokacji: 16
into despair • of despair • in despair • with despair • to despair • ...

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