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helpless English

Meaning helpless meaning

What does helpless mean?

helpless

lacking in or deprived of strength or power lying ill and helpless helpless with laughter unable to function; without help unable to manage independently as helpless as a baby

Synonyms helpless synonyms

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Simple sentences

Without him, I would be helpless.
Tom is helpless.
I feel helpless.
We're helpless.
Tom felt helpless.
I'm helpless without that dictionary, even when it's just for one day.
We were all helpless.
Tom was helpless.
I'm not helpless, you know.
Seiji Toda told Japan's TBS television he was shocked and felt helpless when he saw that his restaurant in Hiroshima had been destroyed by a landslide.
He was helpless.
Tom was completely helpless.
I don't like feeling helpless.
I know that you feel helpless.
Tom's helpless.
I'm not helpless.
I feel so helpless.

Movie subtitles

You don't know what it's like sitting there helpless while your best friend just gets sicker and sicker.
Because before when I felt helpless, I would just, like, take whatever drug I could get my hands on and disappear.
Feverish and helpless, Ambroise considers going back to his home at Ouessant. where there is a doctor.
First they give it to him in the back, then they take him when he's helpless.
Medical science is helpless in a case like this.
You're helpless, Ann, helpless.
You're as helpless as a baby.
I've known what it is to feel lonely and helpless. and have the whole world against me.
I'm always so helpless.
It's really a situation where a woman is helpless.
Beautiful and helpless.
The great Dr. Garth helpless, as she lies there dying before him?
Science is helpless so far.
Those natives were not helpless.
But he's so.helpless.
I feel so little and helpless. and futile.
For a temporary paradise, are you willing to kick a helpless girl into a permanent hell?
SONIA- ASLEEP AND HELPLESS.
CHARMERACE- ASLEEP AND HELPLESS.
They all seemed sort of helpless-like.
These western people seem helpless in their restless pursuit of progress.
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats.. you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
To shelter the old and helpless.
Because I can feel for beaten, helpless people?
It's because he was the one man in England who protected the helpless.. againstbeasts who were drunk on human blood!

News and current affairs

Moreover, the European Central Bank appears helpless because it is bound by the self-imposed fetters of its inflation target.
Without a nuclear deterrent, his regime was helpless when the US reneged on the deal - a lesson that has not been lost on North Korea.
The outside world is not helpless in fighting against China's abuse of psychiatry.
East Asia's governments knew then that the IMF's policies would deepen their downturns, but they were helpless to resist.
But, having curried favor with Russia's media, they were unaccustomed to criticism--and rendered helpless when it appeared.
Indeed, Japan's powerful bureaucrats, normally assumed to know what they are doing, appeared to be as helpless as elected politicians.
Maradona's helpless soul was suffocated by the people's obsessive and suffocating love; at the same time, he couldn't live without that addictive drug.
Moldova has been particularly helpless in the face of the Kremlin's imperial designs.
The world watched, seemingly helpless to do anything.
But they are not helpless.
With short-term interest rates locked at zero, pressure for further appreciation would leave the PBC helpless to re-expand the economy.
But even weak governments are not entirely helpless.
BERKELEY - Across the North Atlantic region, central bankers and governments seem, for the most part, helpless in restoring full employment to their economies.
But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual - even if he or she is an enemy - is not the aim.
With policy interest rates near zero, the argument goes, central banks are more or less helpless to escape the deflationary vortex, and economies become stuck in the infamous liquidity trap.
So, while we understand very well what may have produced the financial crisis, we find ourselves helpless to draw usable lessons from it.
And Japan's political stalemate on structural reforms has left it helpless to stem long-term economic decline.
Ten percent of all deaths in that country, he recently claimed, are from euthanasia, half of which are forced upon helpless patients.
In these circumstances, domestic deflationary policies will only further slow growth - and are helpless to stem imported inflation.
Like today, consumers discovered that markets could leave them helpless, leading to calls for regulation.

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