"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 determination = rozpaczliwa determinacja desperate determination
2. desperate choice = rozpaczliwy wybór desperate choice
  • Time was when surrendering a child for adoption was a desperate choice made by young women, girls really, who were victims of circumstance.
  • Workers on the upper floors faced a desperate choice, either jump five stories to the ground, or be burned to death.
  • It would be a pretty desperate choice, though, wouldn't it?
  • It was too desperate a choice, even for Petey.
  • I propose that he made this desperate choice because he saw in our future something that only such a sacrifice would prevent.
  • So many times he stood before the mirrors and laughed, recalling that old story of desperate choice: the Lady or the Tiger.
  • During the Occupation, many Bajorans had to make similar or even more desperate choices.
  • In such a case, however, it is crucial that I do not elevate this desperate choice into a universal principle.
  • When the train arrived at Grand Central Terminal, he could make only one last desperate choice.
  • How do I compare with that Brooklyn mother, who needed to work and made a desperate but poor choice?
3. desperate resolve = zrozpaczona determinacja desperate resolve
4. desperate decision = rozpaczliwa decyzja desperate decision
(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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