"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperate adjetivo

desperate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 155
desperate need • desperate attempt • Desperate Housewife • desperate effort • desperate situation • desperate measure • ...
(1) need, urge, life
Kolokacji: 3
1. desperate need = zrozpaczona potrzeba desperate need
2. desperate urge = zrozpaczone pragnienie desperate urge
3. desperate life = zrozpaczone życie desperate life
  • Despite our desperate life, we really tried, with the best of wills, to do better and better.
  • Millions of these families are already leading desperate lives.
  • Although he knew many of them must lead confused and desperate lives (wasn't his own wife Linda an example?)
  • So there are those desperate to breath life back into it.
  • Reflecting the desperate, chaotic lives of their members, other groups have formed and then dissolved, almost overnight.
  • Despite the desperate life he was leading, she saw his potential and offered him a job.
  • He has formerly led a desperate life, and is at times even now undoubtedly a ruffian.
  • Without careful research, the welfare specialists say, it will be difficult to determine whether the plan empowers the poor or makes desperate lives more miserable.
  • Of the 69 men and nine women who survived, none would succeed in escaping their desperate lives back home.
  • But most of the women lead more desperate lives.
(3) Housewife, woman
Kolokacji: 2
(5) measure, ploy, gambit, step
Kolokacji: 4
(8) search, quest
Kolokacji: 2
(11) strait, pass
Kolokacji: 2
(13) gamble, venture
Kolokacji: 2
(15) character, case, letter
Kolokacji: 3
(18) poverty, shortage
Kolokacji: 2
(19) call, cry, scream, whisper
Kolokacji: 4
(20) urgency, edge, emergency
Kolokacji: 3
(21) voice, expedient, way
Kolokacji: 3
(22) flight, journey
Kolokacji: 2
(23) parent, mother
Kolokacji: 2
(25) race, refugee, run, team
Kolokacji: 4
(26) leap, gesture
Kolokacji: 2
(27) eye, glance, retreat
Kolokacji: 3
(30) grip, grab, grasp, plunge
Kolokacji: 4
(31) loneliness, eagerness
Kolokacji: 2
(33) criminal, seller
Kolokacji: 2
(34) hand, finger
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + desperate
Kolokacji: 6
grow desperate • feel desperate • sound desperate • become desperate • look desperate • ...
adverbio + desperate
Kolokacji: 11
increasingly desperate • most desperate • pretty desperate • truly desperate • equally desperate • ...
desperate + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
desperate for • desperate in • desperate to • desperate with • desperate at • ...

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