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desperate | a person who is frightened and in need of help | |
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desperate | showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | |
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dire, desperate | fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | |
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desperate, despairing | arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | |
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hopeless, desperate | certain to fail | |
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desperate, heroic | showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | |
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desperate | (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | |
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desperate, do-or-die | desperately determined |