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📖 Определения и значения для слова mercy

📒 a kind or forgiving attitude towards somebody that you have the power to harm or right to punish

  • to ask/beg/plead for mercy
  • They showed no mercy to their hostages.
  • God have mercy on us.

📒 an event or a situation to be grateful for, usually because it stops something unpleasant

  • It is a mercy (that)… It's a mercy she wasn't seriously hurt.
  • His death was a mercy (= because he was in great pain).

📒 not able to stop somebody/something harming you because they have power or control over you

  • I'm not going to put myself at the mercy of the bank.
  • We were at the mercy of the weather.

📒 to be happy that a situation that is bad is not as bad as it could have been

  • Well, at least you weren't hurt. I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies.

📒 to leave somebody/something in a situation that may cause them to suffer or to be treated badly

  • privatized companies left to the mercy of market forces
  • (humorous) I’ll leave you to the tender mercies of these ladies!

📒 to put yourself in a situation where you must rely on somebody to be kind to you and not harm or punish you

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