Meanings of waiting helpless in English

She stood, outwardly patient, waiting helpless till he should speak.

Ferrier said, "You see, skipper, it's better to risk carrying away something, than to have some poor smashed customer waiting helpless."

But now, imagine that while you're waiting helpless for that impossible horror, that unseen death, you stumble over a miracle that could save everyone.

Like a lost soul, poised between two worlds, he was abandoned, waiting helpless, until hunger and thirst would put an end to his sufferings.