impair
/ɪmˈpɛɹ/ verb B1- To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
He/she/it impairs · Past impaired · Past participle impaired · -ing form impairing
Verb forms
- Base form
- impair
- He/she/it
- impairs
- Past
- impaired
- Past participle
- impaired
- -ing form
- impairing
From the library
Their evidence, corroborated by that of several friends, tends to show that Sir Charles’s health has for some time been impaired, and points especially to some affection of the heart, manifesting itself in changes of colour, breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous depression.
“Oh, gentlemen, you see it is all useless, and that my father’s mind is really impaired,” said Villefort.
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