Definition of impair

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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..

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Sound :: Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound..
Blemish :: Blemish (v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..
Good :: Good (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit..
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Stormcock :: Storm-beat (a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms..
Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
Impair :: Impair (a.) Not fit or appropriate.
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
Crazedness :: Crazedness (n.) A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
Dotard :: Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Decay :: Decay (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.
Proviso :: Proviso (n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso..
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..
Appair :: Appair (v. t. & i.) To impair; to grow worse.
Dysaesthesia :: Dysaesthesia (n.) Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch..
Rust :: Rust (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
Waste :: 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.
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