Some lose it totally, becoming incapable or asexual.

"With shootings and brutal crimes like the subway poisoning case, our society is on the verge of becoming incapable of maintaining its safety."

I counsel the United States not to place responsibility for the most important political, international, and military martyrs in the hands of individuals such as Reagan, because Reagan has become incapable, especially in political issues and decisions.

At eighteen, one goes to a dance, sits with a stranger on a stairway, feels peculiar, thinks nothing, and becomes incapable of any plan whatever.

It might not reach the point of becoming incapable of being switched off, but it could conceivably make the job of switching it off an extremely difficult and possibly costly undertaking.

In 1550, he was given the title of commissioner to delimit the English frontier in France but became ill and incapable.

In 1999, student government representatives had become concerned that the aging Colvin Center was becoming increasingly outdated and incapable of meeting the needs of a much larger student body.

Larkin was in fact asked and turned it down, not surprisingly, because by then he was very deaf, ill and had become incapable of writing poetry.

Without a school, without children, the island risked becoming populated only with increasingly fragile elderly people incapable of fighting off the trees and bush that, as in other hot places, threatened to swallow up roads and houses.

Art values have sunk so low and the function of critics like JJ become so questionable, due to chronic brown nosing, that they have become quite incapable of distinguishing between doodles and drawing.