NPPR Commentary Line 62

[Glenn Scheper]

Stuck on "strangle". Just one thesaurus hit would glut a post:

     #158. Impotence.
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impotence
inability
disability
disablement
impuissance
imbecility
incapacity
incapability
inaptitude
ineptitude
incompetence
unproductivity
indocility
invalidity
disqualification
inefficiency
wastefulness
telum imbelle
brutum fulmen
blank
blank cartridge
flash in the pan
vox et proeterea nihil
dead letter
bit of waste paper
dummy
paper tiger
quaker gun
inefficacy
failure
helplessness
prostration
paralysis
palsy
apoplexy
syncope
sideration
deliquium
collapse
exhaustion
softening of the brain
inanition
emasculation
orchiotomy
orchotomy
cripple
old woman
muff
powder puff
creampuff
pussycat
wimp
mollycoddle
eunuch
be impotent
not have a leg to stand on
vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou
vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents
collapse
faint
swoon
fall into a swoon
drop
go by the board
go by the wayside
go up in smoke
end in smoke
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
neuter
sterilize
fix
shatter
exhaust
weaken
powerless
impotent
unable
incapable
incompetent
inefficient
ineffective
inept
unfit
unfitted
unqualified
disqualified
unendowed
inapt
unapt
crippled
disabled
armless
harmless
unarmed
weaponless
defenseless
sine ictu
unfortified
indefensible
vincible
pregnable
untenable
paralytic
paralyzed
palsied
imbecile
nerveless
sinewless
marrowless
pithless
lustless
emasculate
disjointed
out of joint
out of gear
unnerved
unhinged
water logged
on one's beam ends
rudderless
laid on one's back
done up
dead beat
exhausted
shattered
demoralized
graveled
helpless
unfriended
fatherless
without a leg to stand on
hors de combat
laid on the shelf
null and void
nugatory
inoperative
good for nothing
ineffectual
inadequate
inefficacious

And of course, I have mentioned the pharmakon,
and oft come to mention the trope of sea in AF.
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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