Impair

Definition: Impair

Impair

Verb

1. Make worse or less effective; "His vision was impaired".

2. Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "impair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Impair

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Crosswords: Impair

French (odd, uneven, unpaired).

Impair et passe Bonheur (1977)

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Books

• Bonheur / Impair et Passe (reference)

• Defense Communication: Federal Frequency Spectrum Sale Could Impair Military Operations (reference)

• Do Tax Abatements Impair the Financing of Local Public Education (reference)

• Impair et passe : un oursin sur les tapis verts (reference)

• Un Oursin sur les tapis verts : impair et passe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Impair & Valse (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station wilfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

TS does not impair intelligence. (references)

Less often, the cysts impair kidney function. (references)

They also impair clotting and diabetic control. (references)

Business

The issues of high collateral and 100% deposits on opened letters of Credit impair the trade and business transactions for many such businesses. (references)

Economic History

France

Differences are discussed frankly and have not been allowed to impair the pattern of close cooperation that characterizes relations between the two countries. (references)

Belgium

The European Commission has tended to discourage investment incentives, in the belief that they distort the single market, impair structural change, and threaten EU convergence, and social and economic cohesion. (references)

Human Rights

Tajikistan

Police also are permitted to enter and search homes without permission if they have compelling reason to believe that a delay in obtaining a warrant would impair national security. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

Remaining limitations on foreign capital participation in procurement bids can reportedly impair access for potential service providers, including in the energy and construction sectors. (references)

TAIWAN

The Central Bank of China (CBC) intervenes in the foreign exchange market when it feels that speculation or "drastic fluctuations" in the exchange rate may impair normal market adjustments. (references)

Central African Republic

Salary arrears owed to civilian employees and the military and resulting strikes continued to impair the functioning of the Government and the authority of the state to enforce the rule of law. (references)

Trade

Australia

While not inconsistent with the GATT/WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation, the amended Australian law may impair or nullify tariff concessions on products that are exported on an ex-factory basis. (references)

Women

South Africa

The law prohibits gender discrimination on the following grounds: Gender-based violence; FGM; preventing women from inheriting family property; practices which impair the dignity and equality of women; policies that unfairly limit access to land rights or other resources; discrimination based on pregnancy; limiting access to social services and benefits; and denial of access to opportunities. (references)

Worker Rights

Egypt

The ILO for years has claimed that the Labor Code undermines the principle of voluntary bargaining by providing that any clause of a collective agreement that might impair the economic interest of the country is null and void. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "impair": impair shoes. Additional references.

Albanian

keqësoj (aggravate, exacerbate, make worse), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, reduce, use up, weaken), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏ضر (disadvantage, harm, hurt, injure, mar), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, harm, hurt, injure, lacerate, make mischief, malign, offend, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief), ‏دهور. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уронвам (derogate), разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), накърнявам (derogate, detract, offend), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, demote, disgrace, flatten, lower, reduce, relegate, sing flat, whittle away). (various references)

Chinese 

削弱 (impaired, Impairing). (various references)

Czech

zhoršit (add, aggravate, go off, make worse, worsen), zeslabit (become weak, depress, diminish, enervate, reduce, weaken), poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, damage, harm, hurt, injure, prejudice, scar, violate), oslabit (blunt, debilitate, disable, disenable, emasculate, enfeeble, weaken), narušit (blemish, corrupt, dislocate, disrupt, erode, spoil), kazit (blight, butcher, corrupt, debauch, Mar). (various references)

Dutch

nadelig beinvloeden (affect adversely). (various references)

Farsi 

معیوب کردن (Damage, Mar), زیان رساندن (Mar), خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck). (various references)

Finnish

pahentaa (aggravate, make worse), huonontaa (make . . worse), heikentyä (debilitate, enfeeble, weaken). (various references)

French

influencer néfastement, influencer défavorablement, porter atteinte à, porter atteinte, exercer une influence néfaste, exercer une influence défavorable, diminuer, détériorer, compromettre, abîmer. (various references)

German

beeinträchtigen (affect, blemish, curb, damage, detract from, dislocate, distort, disturb, harm, interfere with, reduce, restrict, spoil, to affect, vitiate, warp). (various references)

Greek 

χειροτερεύω (aggravate, deteriorate, worsen). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפגום (blemish, cut notch, spoil), להזיק (damage, harm, hurt, injure, prejudice), להחליש (abate, attenuate, deaden, detach, enervate, enfeeble, slacken, weaken, wear down), פגם (blemish, blot, defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, notch, shortcoming, weakness). (various references)

Hungarian

páratlan (equitable, impaired, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, odd, peerless, singular, superlative, supreme, uneven, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassed), meggyengít (to craze, to debilitate), károsít, elront (blew, blown, corrupt, derange, foul up, make worse, Mar, mess up, misfit, rot, slip up, spoil, tamper, to addle, to ball up, to bitch, to blemish, to blow, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to boss, to botch, to cock up, to corrupt, to crap sg up, to deprave, to disorder, to flaw, to foul up, to louse up, to mess, to mess up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to put out of order, to rot, to scupper, to spill the beans, to spoil, to vitiate, to worsen, unmake). (various references)

Indonesian

merusak (blight, botch, corrode, deflower, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, wreck), mencacati (damage, injure), cacat (defect, deficiency, disability, flawed, malformation, physical defect). (various references)

Italian

indebolire (break down, depress, enervations, enfeeble, etiolate, impoverish, undermine, weaken, weaknesses), menomare (abate, belittle, cheapen, damage, decrease, diminish, disable, drop, dwindle, maim, minimize, relax, slaken, understimate, weaken), danneggiare (damage, harm, hurt, injure, Mar, spoil). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

弱る (to be dejected, to be downcast, to be emaciated, to be perplexed, to be troubled, to impair, to weaken), 傷める (to damage, to impair, to spoil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いためる (to afflict, to be grieved over, to bother, to cause pain, to damage, to hurt, to impair, to injure, to spoil, to stir-fry, to worry), よわる (to be dejected, to be downcast, to be emaciated, to be perplexed, to be troubled, to impair, to weaken). (various references)

Korean 

손상하십시요. (various references)

Manx

milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impairment, mar, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), leodaghey (decrease, degrade, depreciate, detract, diminish, diminution; detractor; cheap, diminution; detractor; cheap morally, dislike, disparage, disparagement, disrespect, drop, dull; reduction, impairment, mitigate, mitigation, offset, reduce, remission, subtract, undervalue). (various references)

Pig Latin

impairay.(various references)

Portuguese

prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, harm, hinder, hurt, inhibit, injure, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), enfraquecer (abate, attenuate, decay, diminish, enervate, extenuate, fade, fail, faint, flag, flatten, impoverish, jade, languish, peak, pine, rust, sap, slacken, undermine, waste, weaken), diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, whittle), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), debilitar (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depress, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

submina (mine, sap, undermine), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), ruina (bankrupt, blast, blight, crock, destroy, dilapidate, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), deteriora (damage, debase, deface, deteriorate), avaria (damage, deteriorate, injure, spoil). (various references)

Russian 

ослаблять (abate, allay, attenuate, debilitate, dilute, diminish, ease off, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, loosen, reduce, relax, relieve, slacken, unbrace, unloose, weaken), наносить ущерб (damage, do evil, endamage), портить;нарушить, повреждать (blast, cripple, damage, injure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smanjivati (reduce), pogoršati (aggravate, debase, deteriorate, exacerbate, go to the bad, make worse), okrnjiti (truncate). (various references)

Spanish

dañar (damage, harm, hurt, jeopardy). (various references)

Swedish

skada (blight, corrupt, corruption, crock, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disserve, harm, hurt, ill, injure, injury, insult, loss, mischief, prejudice, riddle), försämra (accentuate, blow up, debase, deteriorate, heighten, worsen). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้แย่ลง (exacerbate), ทำให้อ่อนแอ (dilute with, etiolate). (various references)

Turkish

zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), zarar vermek (damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, harm, hurt, infest, injure, prejudice, scathe, scourge, shatter, spite), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабшати (abate, ebb, fall, pink in, sink, slack, wane, weaken), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), погіршувати (adulterate, aggravate, degrade, deprave, deteriorate, disimprove, worsen, worst). (various references)

Welsh

amharu (damage, harm, injure). (various references)

adteratur, adterentur, adterere, adtereret, adteretur, adteritis, adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, adtriverat, adtrivisti, adtrivit, attero, deformata, deformati, deformes, in-, inminuam, inminuamus, inminue, inminuentur, inminuta, inminutae, inminuti, inminuto, inminutus, levo, liba, libabant, libabitis, libabunt, libamus, libandum, libane, libans, libant, libantes, libare, libatis, libatoria, libaverint, libaverunt, libavit, libemus, libent, liber, libere, liberis, libet, minuas, minue, minuentur, minuere, minues, minuetis, minuetur, minui, minuisti, minuit, minuitur, minuta, minutis, minutum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impair": impaired, impairer, impairers, impairing, impairment, impairments, impairs. (additional references)

Words containing "impair": unimpaired. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ampair, imair, imar, Imari, impa, impail, impar, impare, impid, impoi, inpair, Iompair, unpair. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: prima, primi.

-2 letters: amir, impi, mair, miri, pair, pima, pram, prim, rami, ramp.

-3 letters: aim, air, ami, amp, arm, imp, map, mar, mir, pam, par, pia, ram, rap, ria, rim, rip.

-4 letters: ai, am, ar, ma, mi, pa, pi.

+1 letter: impairs, imperia.

+2 letters: impaired, impairer, imparity, imperial, minipark, priapism, rifampin, vampiric.

+3 letters: amplifier, bipyramid, empirical, impairers, impairing, imparking, impartial, imparting, imperials, miniparks, perimysia, priapisms, primacies, primality, primaries, primarily, primatial, primipara, primordia, prismatic, privatism, prosimian, rifampins, vampirish, vampirism.

+4 letters: airmanship, amplifiers, bipyramids, epicardium, imipramine, impairment, imparadise, imparities, impartible, impartibly, impearling, imperative, imperially, impresario, imprimatur, mainspring, misparsing, misparting, parasitism, parmigiana, parmigiano, patriotism, pharisaism, pilgrimage, plagiarism, praesidium, primiparae, primiparas, primordial, prismatoid, prismoidal, privatisms, prosimians, provitamin, puritanism, pyramiding, rifampicin, unimpaired, vampirisms.