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.