"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
(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
2. desperately thirsty = rozpaczliwie spragniony desperately thirsty
  • He was desperately thirsty and hungry enough to have started eating rock.
  • Desperately thirsty and exhausted, the surviving British trickled back into camp.
  • Alastair considered; he was desperately thirsty, but not at all hungry.
  • Though the rain continued to fall, harder than ever, they were all desperately thirsty.
  • Desperately thirsty for black blood, without which it could not live, the dragon swam the Ohio at will.
  • Though more desperately thirsty than ever, he kept his mouth shut, and concentrated only on putting one foot in front of the other.
  • After all the seawater he'd swallowed he was desperately thirsty.
  • For his part, Arthur was tired, of course, hungry and desperately thirsty.
  • As they started the descent into Boston, she woke up feeling drugged and desperately thirsty.
  • He was hungry and desperately thirsty, but would not admit it.
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

Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.