"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperately adverbio

verbo + desperately

Kolokacji: 71

desperately need • try desperately • desperately want • desperately seek • desperately search • say desperately • fight desperately • ...

desperately + adjetivo

Kolokacji: 24

desperately poor • desperately short • desperately ill • desperately unhappy • desperately afraid • ...

Kolokacji: 2

1. desperately poor = rozpaczliwie biedny desperately poor

2. desperately short = rozpaczliwie krótki desperately short

With the continuing war, we know our time is desperately short.
I wouldn't put it past him if he became desperately short of money.
East Africa's most severe drought in 60 years has left 10 million people desperately short of food.
But it is deeply in debt and desperately short of capital.
So the Poles, desperately short of food and arms, were left to fight it out to the bitter end.
For all the attention to education, universities are still in desperately short supply.
They are desperately short of players and the 'foreigners' rule hits them hard.
To him, two seconds was a desperately short time.
You know how desperately short they are of both labor and resources on Earth.
It became clear that he was running desperately short of time.

Grup znaczeniowych: 9

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