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# defenceless

«defenceless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no protection, and unable to fight back or guard…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (defenceless, more defenceless, most defenceless)

### meaning for a pupil

Defenceless means having no protection, and unable to fight back or guard yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defenceless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a defenceless animal or child is in danger from a bigger creature; in lessons, a helpless target

### examples

- A baby bird is defenceless without its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defenceless/#x1)
- The defenceless rabbit hid under a leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defenceless/#x2)
- It is cowardly to attack the defenceless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defenceless/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «defenceless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defenceless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.