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  1. 1. a. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. One who is imoitent. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. lacking power or ability Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. (of a male) unable to copulate Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet. Acts xiv. 8. O most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. Addison. 2. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Dryden. 3. (Med.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. One who is imoitent. [R.] Shak. Source: webster
  8. 8. Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also,sometimes, sterile; barren. Source: adambom
  9. 9. j:100 a. lacking power or ability; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson a. (of a male) unable to copulate Source: ecdict

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