Nov 4, 2020Β Β· Desperate describes a condition or state of being so its verb definition would have to be "existing in a condition of desperation", which doesn't yet exist. Therefore, you'd have to make one …

Apr 4, 2025Β Β· We did anything possible to avert disaster. [desperate, you try anything, we really didn't know what to to]. We did everything possible to avert disaster. [implies you know all the things you …

Oct 7, 2024Β Β· 0 American self-assuredness [eyes roll]. His gist is that she doesn't know what she's missing out on. Pick up, hook up, or the British 'pull' are slang for desperate attempts to randomly …

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Aug 7, 2017Β Β· No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, …

Mar 11, 2025Β Β· Learners are often desperate to avoid ambiguity but it doesn't always matter. The word "squat" can mean to move into a squat, but it's often ambiguous. If you say something like "I squatted …

May 20, 2022Β Β· What do you call a desperate attempt unlikely to succeed? For example, when other ideas have failed and you have one final go before giving up

Feb 18, 2016Β Β· Idiomatically, if you're not actually going to reproduce the exact words as spoken (in quote marks), there's often an implication of "desperate pleading" if you include the word please in a …

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