(a.) Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(2) Given that Kennedy also expressed concern with leaving ballot initiatives defenseless when elected officials decline to defend them, that might well put us in the mystery category of how else this case might be dismissed.
(3) Time and time again, businesses that have asked guests not to bring legally possessed, self defense firearms into their establishments have seen their employees and customers victimized by criminals preying on the openly defenseless,” the group said.
(4) Pregnancy makes the body more defenseless against hepatitis and its sequelae.
(5) During my wartime studies and since, I have been impressed by the observation that the patient's ego is by no means powerless and defenseless, even during a deep state of trance, i.e., in states of trance sufficiently deep to eliminate awareness of painful body injuries (1965).
(6) What has not been widely recognized apparently is the all too common consequence of the personal jeopardy that the forensic pathologist is placed in--defenseless, friendless, disgraced, and left with a severely tarnished professional reputation.
(7) The probable existence of motor anomalies could determine the appearance of dysphagia or reduce the effectiveness of motor clearance of the esophageal body, thus conditioning a situation of esophageal defenselessness against physiological or eventual abnormal episodes of gastroesophageal reflux (RGE).
(8) The behavior during dental treatment seems largely to be influenced by pain, feelings of defenselessness, absence of social support and of coping abilities.
(9) In a distant future, the solar system has been invaded by aggressive aliens and the Earth is all but defenseless.
(10) Peters wrote that the courts have not left Tommy and other chimpanzees defenseless, pointing out that New York has a ban on keeping primates as pets.
(11) This contribution shows which effects such a discussion may have on the care of a most defenseless segment of our society.
(12) Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it.
(13) I was stretched out like I’m being crucified.” The position left Hutcherson defenseless when an officer he said grew frustrated with interrogating him and punched him two or three times in the face.
(14) The mental patients were weak, defenseless, burdensome, and uneconomic; the unborn are weak, defenseless, burdensome, and uneconomic.
(15) Franco enlisted the help of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who were eager to practice modern techniques of warfare on the defenseless citizens of Spain .
(16) In short, a man who was about to be charged with violent crimes against defenseless minors was free to roam the Penn State campus, as he pleased,” the report said.
(17) Last month, the NRA made a $3m ad buy in these states that branded Clinton as a “hypocrite” for accepting secret service protection, while calling for more gun control, which the ad charged “would leave you defenseless”.
(18) These facts suggest that not only intrinsic factors, such as defenselessness of airways, but extrinsic factors such as viral, mycoplasmal, or bacterial infection may act together on the mechanisms of the onset and progression of diffuse panbronchiolitis.
(19) Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town.
(20) We, as well as others, have shown the premature infants lack serum plasminogen; thus they are unable to develop effective fibrinolysis and are defenseless against pulmonary fibrin deposition.
Naked
Definition:
(a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
(a.) Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.
(a.) Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
(a.) Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
(a.) Mere; simple; plain.
(a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.
(a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(2) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(3) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(4) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(5) In addition, most of the major topoisomerase II cleavage sites closely corresponded to naked DNA hypersensitive sites for the prokaryotic enzyme, micrococcal nuclease.
(6) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
(7) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
(8) Sometimes naked images are taken of people without their knowledge or consent.
(9) The terminal of the lamprey was nakedly situated on the ventral surface, while that of the hagfish was always covered by the superficial glial layer.
(10) The structure of 7SL RNA has been probed by chemical modification followed by primer extension, using four substrates: (i) naked 7SL RNA; (ii) free signal recognition particle (SRP); (iii) polysome bound SRP; and (iv) membrane bound SRP.
(11) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
(12) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(13) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(14) If you come around, you can see that the trees are naked.
(15) Data obtained with naked RNA broadly confirm the secondary structure model proposed essentially by comparative sequence analysis, and allow identification of nucleotides involved in tertiary interactions.
(16) It doesn't surprise me that a man whose hit song sounded like an assault anthem and featured a video full of naked models would attempt to get back his wife via public pressure and a threatening music video.
(17) Differential binding specificities of MATy 1 and MATy 2 antibodies to the naked and capped LPS cores were further analyzed utilizing S. typhimurium polysaccharide fractions with different O-chain:core ratios which were obtained after separation by Sephacryl S-200 chromatography.
(18) One December morning the naked bodies of two alcoholics were found on an open place in the center of the city of Essen.
(19) While no difference in binding of factor was detected between wild-type polyoma enhancer and the enhancers of the PyEC mutants, PyF111 and PyF441, which had been selected for productive infection of F9 cells, definite differences between wild-type and mutants were observed in the digestion patterns of their naked DNAs with either DNAase I or exonuclease III.
(20) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.