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  • 21desperate — adj. 1 reckless from despair; violent and lawless. 2 a extremely dangerous or serious (a desperate situation). b staking all on a small chance (a desperate remedy). 3 very bad (a desperate night; desperate poverty). 4 (usu. foll. by for) needing… …

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  • 22Desperate —  Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différentes œuvres portant le même titre. Cinéma Desperate, film américain d Anthony Mann (1947) ; Desperate, film américain de Rico Martinez (1991) ; Télévision Desperate, téléfilm américain… …

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  • 23desperate — adj. desperate for (desperate for help) * * * [ desp(ə)rɪt] desperate for (desperate for help) …

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  • 24desperate*/ — [ˈdesp(ə)rət] adj 1) very upset and willing to do anything because you are in a bad situation The missing man s family are getting increasingly desperate.[/ex] In a desperate attempt to escape, he killed a guard.[/ex] 2) needing or wanting… …

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  • 25desperate — adjective 1》 feeling, showing, or involving despair.     ↘tried in despair or when everything else has failed. 2》 extremely bad or serious: a desperate shortage. 3》 (often desperate for/to do) having a great need or desire for something. 4》… …

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  • 26desperate — adjective 1) a desperate look Syn: despairing, hopeless, anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, at one s wits end, at the end of one s tether 2) a desperate attempt to escape Syn …

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  • 27desperate — see desperate diseases must have desperate remedies …

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  • 28desperate — adjective a) Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless. I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark. b) Reckless abandon in the pursuit of an extreme desire. See Also: despair, desperado …

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  • 29desperate — Synonyms and related words: Dionysiac, accident prone, aching for, acute, affording no hope, amok, apathetic, atrocious, bacchic, baffled, balked, berserk, bleak, breakneck, careless, cheerless, climacteric, comfortless, compelling, concentrated …

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  • 30Desperate Housewives — Genre Comedy drama Mystery Created by Marc Cherry …

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