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- Impair - v. t. - To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
- Impair - v. t. - To grow worse; to deteriorate.
- Impair - a. - Not fit or appropriate.
- Impair - n. - Diminution; injury.
- Impaired - imp. & p. p. - of Impair
- Impairer - n. - One who, or that which, impairs.
- Impairing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Impair
- Impairment - n. - The state of being impaired; injury.
- Slander - v. t. - To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
- Shake - v. - Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
- Apair - v. t. & i. - To impair or become impaired; to injure.
- Debilitate - v. t. - To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
- Dilapidate - v. t. - To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
- Paralyze - v. t. - Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
- Impair - v. t. - To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
- Superannuate - v. t. - To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
- Injure - v. t. - To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.
- Hurtful - a. - Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.
- Batter - v. t. - To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
- Rust - v. t. - To impair by time and inactivity.
- Deaden - a. - To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
- Waste - a. - To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- Enervate - v. t. - To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
- Stand - n. - To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
- Ruin - n. - To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
- Contempt - n. - Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
- Blunt - v. t. - To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.