"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
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.
(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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