"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
(13) gamble, venture
Kolokacji: 2
(15) character, case, letter
Kolokacji: 3
(18) poverty, shortage
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperate poverty = zrozpaczone ubóstwo desperate poverty
  • The Haitians, for all their desperate poverty, have not given up.
  • Before these programs were created, most American workers lived their last years in desperate poverty.
  • Many immigrants, fleeing lands of desperate poverty, find even bad jobs a step up.
  • Those hopes have fallen short at nearly every turn, and for reasons that go beyond Haiti's desperate poverty.
  • The number of families living in desperate poverty has dropped.
  • In spite of poor health and the most desperate poverty, he made rapid progress.
  • They live in desperate poverty, without economic or political hope.
  • Donna grew up in desperate poverty, sometimes going for days without food.
  • South Africa has many problems, such as desperate poverty and terrifying crime.
  • Just £10 a month could give a child and family a chance to overcome desperate poverty.
2. desperate shortage = zrozpaczony niedobór desperate shortage
(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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