亚洲网紅露点

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helpless

[ help-lis ]

adjective

  1. unable to help oneself; weak or dependent:

    a helpless invalid.

  2. deprived of strength or power; powerless; incapacitated:

    They were helpless with laughter.

  3. affording no help.


helpless

/ 藞丑蓻濒辫濒瑟蝉 /

adjective

  1. unable to manage independently
  2. made powerless or weak

    they were helpless from so much giggling

  3. without help
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞丑别濒辫濒别蝉蝉濒测, adverb
  • 藞丑别濒辫濒别蝉蝉苍别蝉蝉, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 丑别濒辫顎僱别蝉蝉路濒测 adverb
  • 丑别濒辫顎僱别蝉蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of helpless1

First recorded in 1125鈥75; Middle English; help + -less
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People her age, she said, 鈥渕ostly feel more helpless, more resigned.鈥

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Ms Cherry's husband has described how he "watched in helpless horror" as his wife was fatally injured at the club on Blake Street in Shenstone.

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Her husband has described how he "watched in helpless horror" as his wife was killed at the club on Blake Street in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

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A husband has said he "watched in helpless horror" as his wife was killed in a crash on a golf course.

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"The fire was too intense, consuming the tents and the people inside. We were helpless, we couldn't do anything to save them."

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