"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
(7) important, urgent
Kolokacji: 2
(8) wrong, hard, wicked
Kolokacji: 3
(9) needy, impoverished
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately needy = rozpaczliwie biedny desperately needy
2. desperately impoverished = rozpaczliwie zubożały desperately impoverished
  • It brought about the foundation of the new state named 'People's Republic of Kampuchea' and the reconstruction of the shattered and desperately impoverished country.
  • To rebuild that desperately impoverished place and thereby gain political legitimacy, he needs the promised aid from outside.
  • Local MPs fight for seats by guaranteeing the desperately impoverished substantial financial aid for their communities in return for their support.
  • Its centerpiece is a stunning reproduction of the Five Points neighborhood, the most violent and desperately impoverished district of New York City of the 1860's.
  • But Washington chose to do what was easy: to undermine a nascent democracy in a desperately impoverished country that lacked even the semblance of an effective police force.
  • "Jackie Brown," Mr. Mellencamp's favorite, is the biography of a desperately impoverished man who commits suicide.
  • The demands of these desperately impoverished people include health care, education and control over their land.
  • The eyes of these desperately impoverished people all looked alike to Phoenicia: forlorn, dull, without hope, almost lifeless.
  • On May 10, 1632 they were granted safe-conduct and left a desperately impoverished city of Stade after its siege by John Frederick's forces.
  • There are young mothers with small children, looking desperately impoverished.

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