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at the mercy of

at the mercy of preposition: in the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.

Preposition

at the mercy of

  1. (idiomatic) In the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
    • The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather.
    • The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

at the mercy of meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

at the mercy of in Malayalam

under the control of, in the control of, in the power of
കാരുണ്യത്തിനു വിധേയമായി, ദയാവായ്പിൽ, കരുണാപാത്രമായി, കൃപാകാരുണ്യത്തിൽ, അഭയമായി, കടാക്ഷത്താൽ
exposed to, defenceless against, vulnerable to
അശരണമായി, പ്രതിരോധിക്കാനാളില്ലാതെ, നിരായുധമായി, ഭേദിക്കാവുന്ന സ്ഥിതിയിൽ, അരക്ഷിതമായി, ഇരയായി

at the mercy of in Arabic

defenseless against
تَحْتَ رَحْمَةِ taḥta raḥmati

Questions about at the mercy of

What does at the mercy of mean?
At the mercy of means in the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
What is at the mercy of in Malayalam?
At the mercy of in Malayalam is കാരുണ്യത്തിനു വിധേയമായി, ദയാവായ്പിൽ, കരുണാപാത്രമായി. See At the mercy of meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is at the mercy of?
At the mercy of is a preposition.

Words near at the mercy of in the dictionary

  1. at the last
  2. at the last minute
  3. at the last moment
  4. at the latest
  5. at the least
  6. at the mercy of
  7. at the minimum
  8. at the minute
  9. at the moment
  10. at the money
  11. at the most

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: at the mercy of (page history and authors); at the mercy of (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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