"helplessly" meaning in English

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          "text": "The fish flopped helplessly in the tiny remaining pool.",
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          "text": "The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.",
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        "Without the ability to help oneself."
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      "roman": "avoḯthita",
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      "word": "αβοήθητα"
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      "word": "bezsilnie"
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