infecundity

be impotent; not have a leg to stand on., vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou ["To want to break an eel at the knee" (French)], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents ["To want to seize the moon with one's teeth" (French)]., collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, end in smoke (fail) [more]., render powerless; deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear., unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter., shatter, exhaust, weaken.