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English Dictionary: desperately by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
desperately
adv
  1. with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
    Synonym(s): urgently, desperately
  2. in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Desperately \Des"per*ate*ly\, adv.
      In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety;
      recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
  
               She fell desperately in love with him.   --Addison.
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