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helplessly |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body. --Milton. 3. Bringing no help; unaiding [Obs.] Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues. --Chapman. 4. Unsupplied destitute; -- with of [R.] Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden. -- {Help"less*ly}, adv -- {Help"less*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: helplessly adv : in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly" [syn: {impotently}, {unable to help}]
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