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English to English adverb
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with great urgency |  | Example: health care reform is needed urgently the soil desperately needed potash
source: wordnet30
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in intense despair |  | Example: the child clung desperately to her mother
source: wordnet30
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In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. |  | source: webster1913
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