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Meanings of impotence in English
A sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis.
Lack of power, strength, or vigor; the opposite of power.
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Examples for "powerless"
Examples for "powerless"
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But pupils, parents and teachers often feel powerless to tackle the problem.
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However, the commission is powerless to tackle the issue at this time.
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Parents are often powerless to affect decisions which young people will make.
4
Middle management are completely powerless, incapable of bringing about the changes necessary.
5
Dembrovsky says that the new system leaves motorists powerless to defend themselves.
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It's the universal script of mothers during times of powerlessness: offer food.
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There is in Ireland, north and south, a grim sense of powerlessness.
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The biggest problem for the Labour Party is that sense of powerlessness.
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Some alcoholics, for example, can only recover once they admit their powerlessness.
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During the following month Olofson lives with an increasing sense of powerlessness.
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Give the causes of sterility or impotency in the male and female.
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All at once the impotency and uncertainty of his position goaded him.
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Then the two men stared at each other in blank impotency.
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Mrs. Cricklander was burning with rage and a sense of impotency.
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Will their successors falter and plead organic impotency in the nation?
Usage of impotence in English
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Turing experienced some disturbing side effects, including impotence, from the hormone treatment.
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Their isolation within the nationalist community is emphasised by their political impotence.
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They are alone; this is the secret of their wretchedness and impotence.
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The karate community feels sadness, frustration and above all impotence right now.
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Even when the feebleness and impotence of the successors of Ramses III.
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But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence.
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Frere struck his fist upon the thwart in sheer impotence of rage.
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Eimer speaks of the impotence of natural selection, Weismann of its omnipotence.
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I did know it, and the knowledge of my impotence was terrible.
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I only behold impotence, infamy, and venality everywhere in the German cabinets.
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With the exception of increased impotence in MA-treated patients, toxicity was comparable.
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And her utter impotence in this huge careless city heightened this feeling.
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And as before, the curious impotence of the spectator held him motionless.
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Some patients have experienced steroid-hormone-related complaints such as impotence, insomnia, and fatigue.
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She threw out her hands in a gesture of impotence, of resignation.
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They called out in their impotence, and they gazed with horror-widened eyes.
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