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 …

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

Jun 6, 2018Β Β· I have a question about advanced grammar, after my great previous experience here. Simply saying, I want to express that a guy is desperate, feeling under pressure and bad that …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

Feb 28, 2014Β Β· When asking for something politely which sentence is a better/proper choice? Could you please help me? or Could you help me please?

Feb 28, 2014Β Β· When asking for something politely which sentence is a better/proper choice? Could you please help me? or Could you help me please?

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