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helplessly /ˈhɛlpləsli /adverb1With no ability to act or help oneself: workers watched helplessly as black smoke engulfed the building he now lies helplessly in the intensive care unit...- Dangling there, suspended from a horizontal beam of petrified wood, his legs flailed helplessly beneath him.
- A group of stunned surfers spotted the basking shark thrashing helplessly in a sand bar.
- She gestured helplessly to the limp form she was holding.
1.1In an uncontrollable manner: they fell about, giggling helplessly...- The two young women end up giggling helplessly over the melodramatic dialogue.
- When I met him, I suddenly, helplessly, had a surge of fond feeling for him.
- He's made me laugh helplessly and often.
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