Definition of impair

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Impair (v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

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Dotard :: Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Last :: Last (v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter..
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..
Dilapidation :: Dilapidation (n.) Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention..
Mad :: Mad (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
Shaken :: Shaken (n.) Impaired, as by a shock..
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..
Appair :: Appair (v. t. & i.) To impair; to grow worse.
Labefy :: Labefy (v. t.) To weaken or impair.
Dote :: Dote (v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel..
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.
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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind..
Impoison :: Impoison (v. t.) To poison; to imbitter; to impair.
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Predigestion :: Predigestion (n.) Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.
Apair :: Apair (v. t. & i.) To impair or become impaired; to injure.
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight..
Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..
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