"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 • ...
(1) poor, short
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately poor = rozpaczliwie biedny desperately poor
  • "they are clearly the best team in a league of desperately poor quality"
  • They are desperately poor, it was said, running out of food and fuel for heat in the coming winter.
  • Toward the end of his life, Clark was desperately poor.
  • The program includes aid for Brazil's 60 million desperately poor people.
  • Many of the hardest working, most responsible people in this country are desperately poor.
  • The people are desperately poor, but you have direct contact with them.
  • But the central government - struggling to provide for more than 250 million desperately poor citizens - has let the states go their own way.
  • In this desperately poor country of 5 million, 77 children were adopted by Americans last year.
  • This desperately poor Chicago suburb, wanting to change so much, took another name last month.
  • Inevitably, large numbers of women and girls are finding themselves in desperately poor health.
2. desperately short = rozpaczliwie krótki desperately short
(2) ill, sick
Kolokacji: 2
(3) unhappy, lonely, sad, sorry
Kolokacji: 4
(4) afraid, worried
Kolokacji: 2
(5) anxious, eager, keen, tired
Kolokacji: 4
(6) hungry, thirsty, homesick
Kolokacji: 3
(7) important, urgent
Kolokacji: 2
(8) wrong, hard, wicked
Kolokacji: 3
(9) needy, impoverished
Kolokacji: 2

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