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adj. - Lacking physical strength or vigor.

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Usage examples (5)
  • His fans couldn't care less that Sean welshed on a bet, for charity, no less, and is impuissant.
  • C'est vrai que je me sentais impuissant devant le drame qui se jouait à des milliers de kilomètres de chez moi, mais, au moins, je pouvais parler, témoigner.
  • All immediately forget that his idiocy is only assumed; and what woman ever ceases from deploring the unhappy lot of the future wife of their impuissant Prince!
  • (And don't go arguing that there may be some sort of connection between being immunodeficient and suffering from "a complex of wasting diseases"; we are in the fierce realms of...
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