[ US /ˌɪmˈpɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈe‍ə/ ]
VERB
  1. make imperfect
    nothing marred her beauty
  2. make worse or less effective
    His vision was impaired
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How To Use impair In A Sentence

  • And some soil-based diseases not only cause physical symptoms, but create cognitive impairment too, crippling a child's long-term potential. Blake Mycoskie: Today, TOMS Asks You to Go 'One Day Without Shoes'
  • She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
  • It is well known that diabetics and people with glucose intolerance have impaired calcium metabolism. The Family Nutrition Workbook
  • This leads to edema and altered microcirculation in the skin, which results in impaired healing.
  • a severely impaired heart
  • He had been convicted on his eighth impaired driving charge while driving a stolen car, his 18th possession of stolen property conviction.
  • there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired
  • Beta blockers can impair glucose tolerance, block the symptoms of hypoglycemia and delay recovery from a hypoglycemic episode.
  • When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
  • However, mechanical aids can do much to lessen the disability of impaired body structure.
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