"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
(19) call, cry, scream, whisper
Kolokacji: 4
(20) urgency, edge, emergency
Kolokacji: 3
(21) voice, expedient, way
Kolokacji: 3
1. desperate voice = zrozpaczony głos desperate voice
2. desperate expedient = rozpaczliwy środek doraźny desperate expedient
  • The battle continued, rendered more terrible by the approach of night, when Rinaldo determined upon a desperate expedient to bring it to a conclusion.
  • His desperate expedient had succeeded, had brought one of the searching Empire squadrons to this world!
  • Curt's desperate expedient came with such lightning speed that it seemed an instinctive reaction rather than a deliberate decision.
  • In an attempt to boost the membership (and therefore increase the income) some "fairly desperate" expedients were tried.
  • They might yet be reduced to such desperate expedients, if there was no sign of rescue by the end of the week.
  • Since Washington shows no interest in helping, states will be forced into desperate expedients.
  • "Only as a last desperate expedient, though; it is painful and might throw me into shock."
  • He thought about it for a while, then attempted a desperate expedient.
  • If the fighting spirit of the southrons were not all but extinct, would they resort to such a desperate expedient?
  • About this time the crafty scholar hit upon a last desperate expedient to regain his footing in the community.
3. desperate way = zrozpaczona droga desperate way
(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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