Apr 4, 2025ย ยท 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 โ€ฆ

Nov 4, 2020ย ยท 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 โ€ฆ

Aug 7, 2017ย ยท 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, โ€ฆ

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Mar 11, 2025ย ยท 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 โ€ฆ

Oct 7, 2024ย ยท 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 โ€ฆ

Feb 18, 2016ย ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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