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desperately
adverb
with great urgency
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ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹətli
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adverb
with great urgency
“health care reform is needed urgently”
adverb
in intense despair
“the child clung desperately to her mother”
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health care reform is needed urgently
the soil desperately needed potash
the child clung desperately to her mother
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