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impotency
  • n  the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
  • n  an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
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impounding
  • n  placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
  • v  take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  • v  place or shut up in a pound
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impoundment
  • n  placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
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impoverishment
  • n  the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  • n  the act of making someone poor
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impracticality
  • n  concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
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inachis io
  • n  European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
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impramine hydrochloride
  • n  a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression
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imprecation
  • n  the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
    he suffered the imprecations of the mob
  • n  a slanderous accusation
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impregnation
  • n  material with which something is impregnated
    the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue
  • n  the process of totally saturating something with a substance
    the impregnation of wood with preservative
  • n  creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
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impresario
  • n  a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
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