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Hoped for, or to be hoped for. [R.] Bouvier.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.] I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak.

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.

Desperation; virulence.

Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

iew in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.

e, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

ictory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate. Stow.

To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. Shak.

threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression. His look denounced desperate. Milton.

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.