What's the verb of "desperate", I think it's not "despair", because in this case when you are desperate, you are willing to do anything to get out of the bad situation. And with
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What do you call a desperate attempt unlikely to succeed? For example, when other ideas have failed and you have one final go before giving up
We did anything possible to avert disaster. [desperate, you try anything, we really didn't know what to to]. We did everything possible to avert disaster. [implies you know all the things you could do and did do to avert disaster.
Being desperate to learn something is quite different than that; though resting is part of the process of learning. "Recharging oneself", could be physical and/or mental.
He entered the prison system a devout believer in communism; he emerged a profoundly tolerant believer in humanist principles. About five minutes and 16 frenzied, desperate and comical strokes later, he emerged a folk hero. Indeed, it's as if he emerged a full-blown automatist. He took a chance, but he emerged a winner.
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