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# impotent

«impotent» in Mova's school dictionary: **without power or strength, unable to do anything to stop…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Impotent means without power or strength, unable to do anything to stop or help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impotent/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a wicked enemy or a magic spell that has lost all its power; said of a giant who can no longer harm anyone

### examples

- Once the sword was raised, the giant was impotent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impotent/#x1)
- Without his magic the wizard was impotent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impotent/#x2)
- I felt impotent when I could not reach the rope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impotent/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impotent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impotent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.