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hết nước

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helpless
Verb
helpless

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Verb
helpless Feelings, Appearance & PersonalityTheme Descriptive Properties, States & Register FormsTheme

To be at the end of one's tether means to be completely helpless or have no options left.

vi Anh ấy đã hết nước sau nhiều lần cố gắng thất bại.

en He is at the end of his tether after many failed attempts.

Parts
hết / nước / A compound of hết + nước …
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OriginA compound of hết + nước

Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
歇渃
Candidates by syllable
hết 歇 nước 渃
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Use
hầu hết / hết sức / trước hết / hết mình …
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