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Spanish
incapacitado
Close — helpless, distraught relates to incapacitated.
German
angewiesen
Close, figuratively — dependent relates to helpless, distraught (désemparé).
Practice
1 What does désemparé mean?
helpless, distraught
2 Fill the gap: Il était ___ après la mauvaise nouvelle.
Full sentence: Il était désemparé après la mauvaise nouvelle. (He was distraught after the bad news.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches désemparé?
désemparé: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.