defenceless• If she had allowed him in, she would have been defenceless.• He closed the door closed behind him, leaving her cruelly defenceless against his bitter attack.• Not only were they hungry, but they also felt defenceless against more allied bombing.• Then defenceless, all we could do was fight the panic and slowly slip away.• Afterwards, he sat and watched her: drinking in the picture of her despoiled, defencelessbeauty.• Small but dangerously excitingtrickles of pleasure were still winging their way through her virtually defenceless body.• No one is doing anything to help these poordefenceless children.• The slim man had seized the whip, and after two more murderouskicks, commenced to thrash the defencelesscoachman.• When one finds defencelessprey, others will soon come.• In the first weeks of the war, dozens of defencelessships were sunk by submarines.• Hutt panicked and struck again and again and again until his defencelessvictim fell to the floor.
(BrE) (NAmEdefenseless) VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤be, feel, lie (especially BrE) 無防衞;覺得無助;處於無防禦狀態◇He was kicked as he lay defenceless on the ground.他躺在地上被人踢而無力自衞。➤leave sb使某人無力自衞◇They were left virtually defenceless against enemy attack.面對敵人的進攻,他們實際上一點兒防衞能力都沒有。ADVERB➤completely, totally, utterly完全缺乏防禦能力◇She felt utterly defenceless.她感到一點兒保護自己的能力都沒有。➤almost, practically, virtually幾乎沒有防禦能力;事實上沒有防禦能力PREPOSITION➤against對⋯無法防禦◇They were completely defenceless against enemy attack.他們對於敵人的進攻完全無法防禦。PHRASES➤poor defenceless可憐無助的◇How could anyone steal from a poor defenceless old lady?怎麼會有人去偷一位孤苦無助的老太太的東西呢?