Usually means: Unable to protect oneself adequately.
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  1. defenceless: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. defenceless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. defenceless: Wiktionary
  6. defenceless: Dictionary.com
  7. Defenceless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. defenceless: Rhymezone
  9. defenceless: FreeDictionary.org
  10. defenceless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. defenceless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. defenceless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  (British spelling) Without defence; undefended.

Similar:
defenseless, unarmed, vulnerable, defenderless, unfenced, guardless, protectorless, unguarded, helpless, fenceless, more...

Opposite:
defended, fortified, protected

Types:
unarmed, defenseless, helpless, powerless, vulnerable, weak, more...

Adjectives:
poor, little, left, present, whole, individual, fort, latter, hellespont, powerful, nigh



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Similar:
defenseless, unarmed, vulnerable, defenderless, unfenced, guardless, protectorless, unguarded, helpless, fenceless, more...

Opposite:
defended, fortified, protected

Types:
unarmed, defenseless, helpless, powerless, vulnerable, weak, more...

Adjectives:
poor, little, left, present, whole, individual, fort, latter, hellespont, powerful, nigh



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