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

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 …

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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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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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