"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
(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
1. desperate grip = rozpaczliwy chwyt desperate grip
2. desperate grab = zrozpaczony chwytak desperate grab
3. desperate grasp = rozpaczliwy chwyt desperate grasp
4. desperate plunge = rozpaczliwy nur desperate plunge
  • Clipper had signed his own death warrant when he had made that desperate plunge.
  • Another critic said that Homer "made a sudden and desperate plunge into water color painting".
  • So it was on his death-bed that he made his desperate plunge, and went, it must be said, bravely, on the darkling voyage.
  • I made a desperate plunge.
  • It seemed hardly likely if, as appeared, he had been taking steps for a year to make his desperate plunge.
  • At the same instant the Puritan's left hand tore the dagger from the girdle and with one desperate plunge sank the keen blade home.
  • The Shadow had figured correctly; but he had not expected Hothan to take that desperate plunge.
  • And the corpse beside him - the cadaver which must have borne the brunt of Crofts' desperate plunge - was really that of a man.
  • With a desperate plunge of his heart, Stern recalled the kitcben.
  • Paul tensed, every fiber of his being coiling for a desperate plunge to stop her, but the distance was too great; he wouldn't be in time.
(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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