Word Finder - helpless

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Unable to defend oneself.

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Lacking help; powerless.

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Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble.

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Uncontrollable.

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a helpless urge

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From which there is no possibility of being saved.

He was helpless to find her.

I can't describe how helpless I felt.

Feeling helpless, he glanced again at the hourglass.

Piteous, helpless, animal moans came through the door.

By the door of one of these a sick man was lying upon a couch, helpless and pale.

I feel totally helpless every time I talk to anyone there.

Helpless until the trees finished flinging them around, Katie struggled to grab the branches, so she didn't end up like Deidre.  Finally, a branch wrapped around her and pulled her through the canopy, dumping her at the edge of the jungle.  Toby landed with a grunt beside her, and she lay still to catch her breath, still hoping Deidre reappeared.

She hung, helpless and exhausted, stuck in the in-between place until the pain of her head hitting something hard jarred her into consciousness.

You may be hurt and feeling helpless and desperate and God knows what and I'm sorry as hell but I have a life too, and I'll not have you ruin it!

They knew that they were helpless before so strong an enemy.

She was helpless in his world, and the helpless didn't normally last long.

She's helpless, like Katie was.

Though he took an oath to take care of her, he'd never expected she'd be lying in his bed, helpless against his world.

But now that Poland lay utterly helpless and surrounded by the three great military monarchies of Europe, nothing could save her.

Connor and Sarah sat on the floor, helpless to comfort her.

For the first time in his life, he felt helpless to help the small form of the woman before him.

She was, alas, the helpless victim of my outbursts of temper and of affection, so that she became much the worse for wear.

Instinctively, he reached for his power, only to find it bound by the magic of the underworld.  He was as helpless as a stupid human.

The gods of Olympus are challenged one by one, and shown to be either vile or helpless, or both at once.

If we try to know the real world, we find ourselves distracted by opposite arguments (" ` Antithetic of Pure Reason "), plausible and resistless in attack, helpless in defence.

Randy just nodded and Dean felt helpless to add something more appropriate.

It was a place where good people, and timid, helpless people could find shelter in time of war.

He didn't understand why the self-proclaimed guardian of humans would drag such a helpless creature into this web of evil.

Why look to him, he is helpless.

Steps lead from this temple to an enclosed flight of stairs, which in the cold season descend to the water, but in the rains are covered almost to the top. This is the ghat where some 600 helpless people were slain, in spite of a promise of safe-conduct from the Nana.

The weakest passages in Der fliegende Hollander are not so helpless as the original recitatives of Venus in the first act; or Tannhauser's song, which was too far involved in the whole scheme to be ousted by the mature " New Venusberg music " with which Wagner fifteen years later got rid both of the end of the overture and what he called his " Palais-Royal " Venus.

Fortunately a dense fog hid the helpless masses on the Landgrafenberg from sight of the Prussian gunners.

The State also admitted that large classes of its citizens - the clergy, students, crusaders, widows and the miserable and helpless in general - were justiceable only by Church tribunals.

While I knew we were helpless to do anything positive in Howie's absence, I never-the-less opened the site where Betsy located cases for our attention.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown.

In 675 Benedict Biscop, abbot of Wearmouth, was obliged to obtain glass-workers from France, and in 758 Cuthbert, abbot of Jarrow, appealed to the bishop of Mainz to send him artisans to manufacture " windows and vessels of glass, because the English were ignorant and helpless."

At the same time the fact that the lovers are the helpless victims of the fatal force of a magic spell is insisted upon, in order that their career of falsehood and deception may not deprive them of sympathy.

During the early period of their sojourn in the pouch, the blind, naked, helpless young creatures (which in the great kangaroo scarcely exceed an inch in length) are attached by their mouths to the nipple of the mother, and are fed by milk injected into their stomach by the contraction of the muscle covering the mammary gland.

The Lydian king, finding that Nineveh was helpless to assist him, turned instead to Egypt and furnished the mercenaries with whose help Psammetichus drove the Assyrians out of the country and suppressed his brother satraps.

Aurungzeb's successors became the helpless instruments of conflicting chiefs.

The conspirators imagined that a terrorized and helpless government would readily agree to all their demands.

Livingstone had "the impression that he was in hell," but was helpless, though his "first impulse was to pistol the murderers."

How helpless can people feel, in the face of such adversity; it would take a miracle to save us now.

We feel the mental anguish encountered by men suffering in the helpless situation of a gas attack.

She became aware that she had on her hands someone not far removed from helpless infancy.

I felt strangely helpless and vulnerable as the first tinkling chunks whizzed by, Es cursing increasingly loudly from his precarious perch high above.

He is poor and helpless and lonely now, but before another April education will have brought light and gladness into Tommy's life.

On seeing his daughter he moved his helpless lips and made a hoarse sound.

Princess Mary was sitting helpless and bewildered in the large sitting room, when Rostov was shown in.

It wasn't quite as easy as he thought, especially since she was so helpless.

Lana stood back, helpless.

Agony tore through him as will combated magic, and he seized on the ground, helpless.

She was helpless, and the violence of her grief and anger soon changed to passive resistance, and than to a complete forbearance and complaisance which gained the king's regard and favour.

But to sit down helpless before human suffering is an unendurable attitude.

In 1550 the citizens purchased the manor of Southwark, and with it they became possessed of the monastery of St Thomas, which was enlarged and prepared for the reception of " poor, sick and helpless objects."