"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 • ...

verbo + desperate

Kolokacji: 6

grow desperate • feel desperate • sound desperate • become desperate • look desperate • ...

Kolokacji: 5

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) grow, become, make

Kolokacji: 3

1. grow desperate = stój się zrozpaczony grow desperate

2. become desperate = stój się zrozpaczony become desperate

The financial situation was becoming desperate early in the 2001-02 season.
Every year recently, the situation has become more desperate for the Yankees.
By 1919, however, living conditions in Russia had become desperate.
He became desperate and was willing to try anything in search for a solution to his problem.
Meanwhile the plight of the police in the court house had become desperate.
Some 180 million Chinese in the north are short of water and the situation is becoming more desperate.
But, yes, I've applied more effort to it of late, because my need for this magic become so desperate.
She is becoming overly desperate and has almost given up on life.
Please help me, I am so frightened and becoming desperate!
Politics in this country has become absolutely desperate, I despair.

3. make desperate = uczyń zrozpaczony make desperate

(2) feel, sound, look

Kolokacji: 3

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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