adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
helpless laughter (= that someone cannot control )
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The audience were in fits of helpless laughter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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When awake, he lay motionless, coiled like a fetus and almost as helpless .
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I was as helpless as an infant.
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Then they felled me, so that I lay by Elsbeth and was as helpless as she.
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It was only like being at the dentist's, after all; certainly he felt as helpless .
so
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A man felt so helpless at such a time.
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He was so sweet when he slept, so helpless , so innocent.
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We're so weak physically, so helpless with things.
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Oliver says he is a duffer, but keeps him on because he is so helpless and lonesome.
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We felt so helpless , so powerless to right what to us was a terrible wrong.
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She looked so young, so helpless , this girl who had killed a man, and could have easily killed four.
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Once she could find her way around the palazzo she wouldn't feel quite so helpless .
■ NOUN
laughter
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I am terrified to look at them because I know I will collapse into helpless laughter .
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I flipped from fury straight into hilarity and collapsed on the ground beside him, rolling around in helpless laughter too.
victim
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That is, he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class, media and state propaganda.
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To hold otherwise would leave municipalities the helpless victims of all those who choose to publish untrue imputations which injure their reputations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doctors are rendered helpless by the lack of supplies.
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Frightened and helpless , Alvin wondered if they might kill him.
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His mother's death left the boy feeling utterly helpless and alone.
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I hate the thought of helpless animals being killed.
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Why are you so afraid of a helpless old woman?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I feel pretty helpless , have a good cry and share my grief with colleagues who also knew David.
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Looking down through the iron grids of the stairway, I had to fight back a helpless feeling of vertigo.
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Parents often feel helpless , knowing that all the cuddles in the world won't stop the tears.
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She looked back on the transformation in herself with a kind of helpless resignation.
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They were terrified, but they were no longer utterly helpless .
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While she appeared to be confused and helpless , she was also hostile.