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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 2
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 9
(1) poor, short
Kolokacji: 2
(2) ill, sick
Kolokacji: 2
(3) unhappy, lonely, sad, sorry
Kolokacji: 4
(4) afraid, worried
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately afraid = rozpaczliwie wystraszony desperately afraid
  • He was desperately afraid of making the wrong choice.
  • We'd moved far from the tree, there was no shade, and we were desperately afraid of making noise.
  • Anna is desperately afraid that Walter will get bored and leave her.
  • "He's desperately afraid the whole place is going to go up in smoke," a Western diplomat said.
  • Brian was desperately afraid his aunt would find out about Cricket.
  • I am desperately afraid that nuclear bombs will be dropped on the state of Israel.
  • Breeze saw that the man was desperately afraid, and suddenly she felt sorry for him.
  • And why are those men down there so desperately afraid of it?
  • Everyone in the place was desperately afraid of something, he said.
  • They're desperately afraid of something I can't even begin to guess at.
2. desperately worried = rozpaczliwie martwić się desperately worried
(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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