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What does at the mercy of mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at the mercy of? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) In the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
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She stared up into the face of a man that she had once been at the mercy of and felt her skin begin to crawl again.
I was quite literally at the mercy of the Inquisition and was completely unable to tell a lie.
What is set up as a life and death struggle, a dying father at the mercy of experimental science, is left unresolved.
It was also less prosperous and secure, and more at the mercy of European power politics.
On a still and empty stage three men appear at the mercy of constant rebuffs.
You are at the mercy of Mother Nature and toil long, hard hours in the knowledge that you could earn more working in a supermarket.

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