0 US spelling of defenceless --
1 having no way to protect yourself from attack or harm: --
Youngsters are often the most defenseless against mosquitoes.
Dumervil was in a defenseless position trying to get back up after a play.
For example, courage is worthy, for too little of it makes one defenseless.
However, the town was defenseless, as every able-bodied person had already left to fight in the war.
Her novels often focused on adult insensitive treatment of defenseless youth.
Oil can also blind an animal, leaving it defenseless.
Unfortunately, the human body is essentially defenseless again these metals.
Natural selection led to an environment wherein no individual species possessed great advantage over any other; defenseless off-world species, however, were easy prey.
A cricket will eagerly attack a much larger but defenseless moulting spider.
