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impair
/ɪmˈpɛɹ/
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What does impair mean?
verb
- To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
More meanings (5)
verb
- (archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
adjective
- (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
noun
- (obsolete) The act of impairing or deteriorating.
- (obsolete) The fact of being impaired or having grown worse.
- (obsolete) An impairment or deterioration.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪmˈpɛɹ/
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The States are likewise prohibited from making laws which may have a tendency to impair the obligations of contracts.
This may have baffled some hopes, and in some degree qualified his happiness, but did not impair his virtues.
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To see poisonous vines, foretells that you will be the victim of a plausible scheme and you will impair your health.
Dark days and bright days, sickness and health, fatigue and rest seem to impair his courage, hope and general cheerfulness of mood but little.
When, in the end, these chords become too close, they will have to go; they would impair the symmetry of the work.