Nov 4, 2020 · 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 …

May 20, 2022 · 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

May 4, 2023 · Is there a stronger word for "highly frustrated" or "feeling very hopeless"? So If I want to tell someone that I am highly frustrated by the work I am doing or convey that it's ...

Jun 6, 2018 · 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 …

Jul 2, 2016 · I would probably go with the simple past rather than the past perfect. I don't think it has anything to to with by though. Typically the past perfect is used to show that one event occurred …

May 30, 2022 · To have shot one's bolt is something said after making a [final or only] effort / contribution, so it's not relevant here. The main difference between making a final push and a last …

Aug 7, 2017 · 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, 2016 · 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 …

Oct 7, 2018 · 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.

"It's as if once you make a significant error, you cant help but make a zillion others, like dominoes falling over in succession." This line is from a novel called "Desperate in Dubai".