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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 22
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(1) need, urge, life
Kolokacji: 3
(2) attempt, effort, bid, attack, charge, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(3) Housewife, woman
Kolokacji: 2
(4) situation, act, condition, circumstance, action, ...
Kolokacji: 13
(5) measure, ploy, gambit, step
Kolokacji: 4
(6) man, people, hope, remedy, patient, ...
Kolokacji: 14
(7) struggle, battle, fight, fighting, lunge, ...
Kolokacji: 10
(8) search, quest
Kolokacji: 2
(9) time, hour, moment, chance, day, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(10) plea, appeal, wish, prayer, message, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(11) strait, pass
Kolokacji: 2
(12) move, haste, hurry, dash, rush, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(13) gamble, venture
Kolokacji: 2
(14) desire, longing, hunger, yearning, craving, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(15) character, case, letter
Kolokacji: 3
(16) plan, thought, tactic, maneuver, scheme
Kolokacji: 5
(17) look, courage, tone, expression, feeling, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(18) poverty, shortage
Kolokacji: 2
(19) call, cry, scream, whisper
Kolokacji: 4
(20) urgency, edge, emergency
Kolokacji: 3
1. desperate urgency = beznadziejnie pilna potrzeba desperate urgency
2. desperate edge = zrozpaczony brzeg desperate edge
  • Hence the desperate edge in Miles's drive to reclaim his health.
  • The crying started up again, was cut off, and continued with a desperate edge to the wail.
  • All this has added a new and desperate edge to even ordinary transactions.
  • "They are not sleeping together," she said, a desperate edge to her voice.
  • There was a desperate edge to his voice now.
  • When the young man looked uncertain, the boy's voice took on a slightly desperate edge of pleading.
  • She said it again, tone taking on a desperate edge.
  • They'd made love tonight with an almost desperate edge.
  • But the one thing they all share is that desperate edge.
  • There was something in their tone of voice that had a desperate edge to it.
3. desperate emergency = zrozpaczony nagły wypadek desperate emergency
(21) voice, expedient, way
Kolokacji: 3
(22) flight, journey
Kolokacji: 2
(23) parent, mother
Kolokacji: 2
(24) plight, trouble, problem, predicament
Kolokacji: 4
(25) race, refugee, run, team
Kolokacji: 4
(26) leap, gesture
Kolokacji: 2
(27) eye, glance, retreat
Kolokacji: 3
(28) intensity, strength, push, energy
Kolokacji: 4
(29) fear, love, passion, frenzy, panic
Kolokacji: 5
(30) grip, grab, grasp, plunge
Kolokacji: 4
(31) loneliness, eagerness
Kolokacji: 2
(32) determination, choice, resolve, decision
Kolokacji: 4
(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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