"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
(31) loneliness, eagerness
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperate loneliness = zrozpaczona samotność desperate loneliness
2. desperate eagerness = zrozpaczony zapał desperate eagerness
  • Blade didn't get to sleep for quite a while, because Haima insisted on making love with almost desperate eagerness.
  • She saw the desperate eagerness in his eyes, like a child waiting for praise.
  • I had seen the desperate eagerness in the way some people looked at me.
  • The woman seemed stimulated, for a few moments, to an unnatural strength, and worked with desperate eagerness.
  • The desperate eagerness in Daemon's eyes tore the veil off the vision.
  • There was no desperate eagerness, you see, to break into literature, even under those urgent conditions.
  • He felt a desperate eagerness to work through it, to burn the pain out of his body.
  • And his desperate eagerness to catch a glimpse of the animal leads to an unfortunate accident.
  • From his desperate eagerness of the afternoon, Wil could imagine his state of mind by evening.
  • Misery and a rebellion blunted by a desperate eagerness to be included in the family business are the lietmotifs of Gottfried's youth.
(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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