"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 • ...
adverbio + desperate
Kolokacji: 11
increasingly desperate • most desperate • pretty desperate • truly desperate • equally desperate • ...
(2) most, truly
Kolokacji: 2
1. most desperate = najbardziej zrozpaczony most desperate
2. truly desperate = naprawdę zrozpaczony truly desperate
  • Now, short of doing something truly desperate like putting a letter in an envelope, there's a way.
  • Only then did the Jews become truly desperate, and they begged for peace.
  • Woods was making the best response he knew to a truly desperate situation.
  • They must have been truly desperate to undertake the journey.
  • Gabriel realized how truly desperate the family must have been.
  • She encounters characters ranging from the truly desperate to the bizarre.
  • There would also be bingo, of course, last resort for the truly desperate.
  • Anyone truly desperate for a Grammy might think about changing style.
  • If I get truly desperate, there's always the paper to eat, she thought.
  • Another 34 percent of the sample described themselves as feeling "truly desperate" about the situation.
(3) pretty, somewhat, slightly
Kolokacji: 3
desperate + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
desperate for • desperate in • desperate to • desperate with • desperate at • ...

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