powerless in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for powerless in the English»Italian Dictionary

powerless [Brit ˈpaʊəlɪs, Am ˈpaʊ(ə)rləs] ADJ

powerless

impotente (against innanzi)

I was powerless to prevent it

non ho potuto fare niente per impedirlo

the police were powerless to intervene

la polizia non è potuta intervenire

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they were powerless before such resistance

erano impotenti di fronte a una tale resistenza

Translations for powerless in the Italian»English Dictionary

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impotente persona, governo, polizia, rabbia

powerless

essere totalmente impotente

to be completely powerless

ridurre qn all'impotenza

to render sb powerless

provare un sentimento d'abbandono, d'impotenza

to feel abandoned, powerless

powerless in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for powerless in the English»Italian Dictionary

powerless [ˈpa·ʊɚ·ləs] ADJ

powerless

impotente

to be powerless against sb

essere impotente contro qu

Translations for powerless in the Italian»English Dictionary

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impotente (persona)

powerless

powerless Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be powerless against sb

essere impotente contro qu

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

When she is old and powerless, she finally agrees.

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A spectre is powerless in natural sunlight and flees from it.

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The survivors make it to a powerless patrol boat on the river and drift downstream to the waiting submarine.

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She was powerless to stop the flow of events.

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The town marshal is meanwhile powerless to act outside his jurisdiction beyond the town boundary.

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The cities, however, were not powerless, and as executors of the public peace, they had developed into a potent military force.

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Bureaucracy naturally welcomes a poorly informed and hence a powerless parliamentat least insofar as ignorance somehow agrees with the bureaucracys interests.

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These organizations serve as regional planning agencies and as forums for debating issues of regional importance, but are generally powerless relative to their individual members.

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If it is only soft and flexible, it is powerless.

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But beyond such poor revenge, he was powerless for any open enmity.

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