Desperately

Definition

desperate /'despǝrǝt/ adj ၁။ (က) ရမ္းကားၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ။ ႀကံမိႀကံရာ စြတ္လုပ္ေသာ။ ထင္ရာစိုင္းေသာ။ The prisoners grew increasingly desperate. ❍ She wrote me a desperate letter. ❍ a last desperate attempt to avoid capture. (ခ) ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းေသာ၊ ႀကံမိႀကံရာ စြတ္လုပ္ေသာ(သူ)။ a desperate criminal. ၂။ ~ (for sth/to do sth) အ႐ူးအမူး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ေသရမေလာက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ He was so desperate for a job that he would have done anything. ❍ ( infml ) Have you got a cigarette? I'm desperate (for one). ❍ I was absolutely desperate to see her. ၃။ အလြန္အမင္း အေရးႀကီးေသာ။ စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ဆိုးဝါးေသာ။ a desperate situation/shortage/illness ❍ The state of the economy is now desperate. ၄။ ေအာင္ျမင္ရန္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ ကင္းေသာ။ တြယ္မိတြယ္ရာသေဘာျဖင့္ လုပ္ေသာ။ a desperate bid for freedom ❍ a desperate remedy/measure. ❏ desperately adv ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္။ အသည္းအသန္။ struggling/trying desperately ❍ desperately keen/anxious/ill. ❏ desperation /despǝ'reÇʃn/ n [U] ႀကံရာမရျဖစ္ျခင္း။ အ႐ူးအမူးျဖစ္ျခင္း။ အသည္းအသန္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ driven to desperation ❍ In desperation I went to a psychiatrist for help.

Examples

1. The missing man’s family are getting increasingly desperate.
2. In a desperate attempt to escape
3. he killed the guard.
4. [desperate for] : They were sold by families desperate for money to buy food.
5. [be desperate to do something] : She was desperate to see him again.
6. The desperate plight of the refugees
7. Parts of this school are in desperate need of repair.