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

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

May 26, 2024ย ยท We would use a different word such as "keen" or "desperate", for example I am keen to go to Dave's party. The word 'inclined' is used in a situation where you aren't very sure about 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

May 20, 2022ย ยท 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

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

Oct 7, 2018ย ยท Being desperate to learn something is quite different than that; though resting is part of the process of learning. "Recharging oneself", could be physical and/or mental.

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