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“impotently”
impotently (adverb), more impotently, most impotently
Descriptive of how a person acts in a helpless manner; helplessly: After Tom slipped off the path and fell down the steep slope, he grabbed impotently at the first rock he could feel.
Jane impotently watched her mother as she was slowly dying.
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poten-, pot-, poss-, -potent, -potence, -potency, -potential +
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