impair
IPA: ɪmpˈɛr
noun
- (obsolete) The act of impairing or deteriorating.
- (obsolete) The fact of being impaired or having grown worse.
- (obsolete) An impairment or deterioration.
verb
- (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
adjective
- (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
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Examples of "impair" in Sentences
- Alcohol may impair your memory.
- The organ tissue was deeply impaired.
- Her cognitive functions were impaired.
- Fatigue may affect to impaired concentration.
- She won in the events for the visually impaired.
- Her impairment was specific to letters in the alphabet.
- It may kind of impair it, as well as your motor skills.
- Links to websites impair the credibility of the article.
- A vision disorder is an impairment of the sense of vision.
- Including children and the disabled such as the visually impaired.
- These minor scratches can damage the surface of the lens and impair vision.
- We will ignore those requirements when we conclude that it will "impair" what occurs in the Executive branch.
- Should such a sum be issued it would be followed by a great "impair", if not utter loss of the public credit.
- The order says that states may not "impair" or even "condition" a national bank's ability to exercise its powers.
- Limits on expression impair the Chinese quality of life, mutes the ability of its political economy to secure progress, and can allow legitimate grievances to fester until they get out of control.
- Without the bankruptcy financing, the remaining critical employees will likely depart, which would "impair" WorldSpace's ability to operate the satellites and continue as a going concern, Samara said.
- Still farther: If Congress be allowed to imply this power (as to a legal tender), it gains, by the political ledgerdemain of construction, the power not merely to "impair," but to violate and extinguish the obligation of contracts!
- If the work made for hire clause were to be retroactively corrected so that it did not automatically give the commissioning party such an interest, regardless of contractual language that was intended to make such a transfer, it would "impair" the contracts that depend upon those clauses.
- Clicking through this EULA appears to allow Pinnacle to install software automatically from third parties onto your computer – software which the vendor admits may "impair" the program ( "the Software") you have just purchased, as well as "any other software on your computer which specifically depends on the Software."