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Defenseless definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEFENSELESS, a. Being without defense, or without means of repelling assault or injury; applied to a town, it denotes unfortified or ungarrisoned; open to an enemy; applied to a person, it denotes naked; unarmed; unprotected; unprepared to resist attack; weak; unable to oppose; uncovered; unsheltered.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking protection or support; "a defenseless child" [syn: defenseless, defenceless]
2: having no protecting or concealing cover; "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespeare [syn: naked, defenseless]
3: lacking weapons for self-defense [syn: defenseless, defenceless] adv
1: without defense; "the child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly" [syn: defenseless, defenceless, defenselessly, defencelessly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see defense I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Defenseless De*fense"less, a. Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected. -- De*fense"less*ly, adv. -- De*fense"less*ness, n.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, aidless, bare-handed, deserted, desolate, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, godforsaken, guardless, guideless, helpless, homeless, kithless, leaderless, motherless, outcast, pregnable, unarmed, unarmored, unattended, uncovered, undefended, unfortified, unfriended, ungarrisoned, unguarded, unprotected, unscreened, unsheltered, unshielded, unsuspecting, untenable, unwarned, unwatched, vulnerable, weaponless