Crossword-Solution: DESPERATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desperation | n. | The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. |
| Desperation | n. | A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DESPERATION | anagram | POINTEDEARS |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DESPERATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A rope ends it? | 1 answer |
| Reason for a Hail Mary pass | 1 answer |
| loss of hope and surrender to despair | 1 answer |
| A ROPE WITH WEIGHTS ATTACHED TO THE ENDS | 10 answers |
| foolhardiness | 14 answers |
| hopelessness | 32 answers |
| Recklessness | 48 answers |
| despondency | 50 answers |
| propulsion | 63 answers |
| undercurrent | 65 answers |
| iron will | 65 answers |
| despair | 71 answers |
| ACT of will | 72 answers |
| Significance | 77 answers |
| Worry | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESPERATION (5)
But for these, the slave would be forced up to the wildest desperation; and woe betide the slaveholder, the day he ventures to remove or hinder the operation of those conductors! I warn him that, in such an event, a spirit will go forth in their midst, more to be dreaded than the most appalling earthquake.
For one thing, I honestly could not imagine that words, names, meant so much to you.” Fred was talking with the desperation of a man who has put himself in the wrong and who yet feels that there was an idea of truth in his conduct.
The yellow men, cornered between two enemies, fought with the desperation that utter hopelessness often induces.
Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.
But at last those who remained were driven to desperation by the continued truculence of Terkoz, and it so happened that one of them recalled the parting admonition of Tarzan: “If you have a chief who is cruel, do not do as the other apes do, and attempt, any one of you, to pit yourself against him alone.
Quotes with DESPERATION (3)
Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .” He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that heat.. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydne…
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2008).