"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

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

(5) anxious, eager, keen, tired

Kolokacji: 4

(6) hungry, thirsty, homesick

Kolokacji: 3

1. desperately hungry = rozpaczliwie głodny desperately hungry

I was desperately hungry, not having eaten in days.
They are desperately hungry and have seen their children die from eating poisoned fruit.
This is like the torture of Tantalus, as by now we are desperately hungry.
By now we all felt desperately hungry and thirsty.
His mouth began to water at once, for he was desperately hungry, and the pears were the best of the season.
You probably know that the markets of South Asia are desperately hungry for energy.
They were all cold, and very tired, and desperately hungry.
Dignity could be forgotten in the darkness and he was desperately hungry.
But for many, it was a morsel of hope in desperately hungry days.
They were desperately hungry, having eaten practically nothing since their capture.

2. desperately thirsty = rozpaczliwie spragniony desperately thirsty

3. desperately homesick = rozpaczliwie tęskniący za domem desperately homesick

(7) important, urgent

Kolokacji: 2

(8) wrong, hard, wicked

Kolokacji: 3

(9) needy, impoverished

Kolokacji: 2

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