"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
(22) flight, journey
Kolokacji: 2
(23) parent, mother
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperate plight = rozpaczliwe położenie desperate plight
2. desperate trouble = zrozpaczone kłopoty desperate trouble
3. desperate problem = zrozpaczony problem desperate problem
  • More surprising still, they might prove part of the solution to the Soviet Union's desperate economic problems.
  • "He cannot justify requiring the public to pay for political campaigns in a time when there are such desperate problems that the city faces."
  • The purpose of civil rights leaders is to focus on desperate problems and show what can and must be done.
  • He was too much occupied with his own desperate problem.
  • Government officials insisted schools with desperate problems would still get money.
  • The view from Hempstead, for example, is that street gangs are a desperate problem, requiring urgent attention.
  • And even if I did not - desperate problems may require desperate remedies.
  • I think we have desperate problems of law and order.
  • We should ensure that these people are not forced to return to their countries if that is going to create desperate problems for them.
  • His mind was tired, for he had worked over his desperate problem from every angle that he could think of.
4. desperate predicament = zrozpaczone kłopotliwe położenie desperate predicament
(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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