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helplessly
(encz) | helplessly,bezmocně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Helplessly
(gcide) | Helpless \Help"less\, a.
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend
one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless
infant.
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How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope.
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2. Beyond help; irremediable.
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Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of
mind or body. --Milton.
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3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
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Yet since the gods have been
Helpless foreseers of my plagues. --Chapman.
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4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
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Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.
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helplessly
(wn) | helplessly
adv 1: in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly"
[syn: helplessly, impotently, unable to help] |
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