HOW TO PRONOUNCE
impairment
/ɪmˈpɛɹmənt/
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What does impairment mean?
noun
- The result of being impaired.
- A deterioration or weakening.
- A disability or handicap.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A loss or absence of baseline human functioning that may lead to a disability.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A downward revaluation, a write-down.
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/ɪmˈpɛɹmənt/
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The result was a horrible disfiguration of the book, and a serious impairment of its durability.
The dementia consists mainly in impairment or loss of the power of retention, with resulting amnesia for recent occurrences, and temporal disorientation.
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Drug abuse is the use of any licit or illicit chemical substance that results in physical, mental, emotional, or behavioral impairment in an individual.
I compare it with his paper on Machiavelli in a late number of Harper, and I cannot find that his English has suffered any impairment.
One case was that in which there was congenital absence of the external auditory meatus of both ears without much impairment of hearing.