Term: desperate straits: a state of extreme distress
Candidate hypernym: pass: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs → 1
Candidate hypernym: earshot: the range within which a voice can be heard → 0
Candidate hypernym: hack: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: food chain: (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member → 0
Candidate hypernym: mallotus: capelins → 0
Candidate hypernym: pike-perch: any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family → 0
Candidate hypernym: zapper: an electrical device that can injure or kill by means of electric currents → 0
Candidate hypernym: tachogram: a graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachograph → 0
Candidate hypernym: andropogon: tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions → 0
Candidate hypernym: ore: a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined → 0
Candidate hypernym: lepidocybium: a genus of Gempylidae → 0