(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.
(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.
(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two groups had one thing in common: the casualties' mostly deliberate posttraumatic reaction; there were only 3 patients in a state of helplessness.
(2) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
(3) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(4) A rating of helplessness shown in the past just before onset of a prior depressive episode suggested a similar raised rate compared to those never depressed.
(5) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(6) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(7) The results showed that both drug treatments blocked the deficit in the escape learning (helplessness effect).
(8) Other contributing factors include the high level of helplessness of human infants, the resulting high attachment needs, and the prolongation of development phases.
(9) Results demonstrated that action orientation was associated with self-immunizing cognitions during helplessness training.
(10) The average Eritrean is now “a helpless victim”, he says.
(11) The results demonstrate that patients classified as low helpless were distinct from those classified as normal.
(12) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(13) In statements, prisoners later described their feeling of helplessness, of being cut off from the rest of the world in a place where there was no law and no rules.
(14) Your feelings of guilt and helplessness may be difficult to deal with, but you may not be what is needed right now.
(15) Limited opportunities for exercising self-control while incarcerated may encourage helplessness.
(16) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
(17) Instead of feeling helpless, you feel positive and think ‘Well, I made a difference last weekend, sealing up that draughty room.’ There is a wave of change building and people doing things slowly influences governments and companies too.
(18) The validity of the RAI was established in comparisons to the Arthritis Helplessness Index.
(19) We investigated the relationship between changes in helplessness and depression to disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(20) Infants which are born naked, blind and helpless elicit retrieving and nest building and are cleaned and cared for by the female.
Wither
Definition:
(n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
(n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
(n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
(v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
(v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
(v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.