desperately (adv.)

  1. with great urgency; health care reform is needed urgently; the soil desperately needed potash

    [ Syn: urgently , urgently , urgently , urgently , urgently , urgently , urgently , urgently ]

  2. in intense despair; the child clung desperately to her mother'

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