"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(1) need, urge, life
Kolokacji: 3
(3) Housewife, woman
Kolokacji: 2
(5) measure, ploy, gambit, step
Kolokacji: 4
(8) search, quest
Kolokacji: 2
(11) strait, pass
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperate strait = zrozpaczona cieśnina desperate strait
  • How was it possible he'd come to such desperate straits as this?
  • But the city was in such desperate straits by then that it had to immediately expand the program.
  • He had got into the habit of seeing himself always in desperate straits.
  • The intensity of that series could leave one or both teams in desperate straits.
  • Some say it is a smart approach for a city in desperate straits.
  • Today, he said those steps would still leave the county in desperate financial straits and that a tax increase was essential.
  • A single 43-year-old Soviet woman is, on the evidence of the film, someone in extremely desperate straits.
  • They were among the few families to escape, and would spend the rest of the war in desperate straits.
  • "But I didn't anticipate being in the desperate straits we are right now."
  • It was a measure of our desperate straits, that he would attempt such a thing.
2. desperate pass = zrozpaczona przepustka desperate pass
(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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