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Impaired

[im-paird]

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adjective

weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.

functioning poorly or inadequately: Consumption of alcohol results in an impaired driver.

deficient or incompetent (usually preceded by an adverb or noun): morally impaired; sports-impaired.

Origin:
impair + -ed²

Related forms

un·im·paired, adjective

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Example Sentences

Methods of dealing with impaired nurses are becoming less punitive.

Even as colleges embrace diversity, simple solutions to help the visually impaired are overlooked.

However by global convention loans are not marked to market, but carried at cost and impaired gradually.

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Methods of dealing with impaired nurses are becoming less punitive.

Even as colleges embrace diversity, simple solutions to help the visually impaired are overlooked.

However by global convention loans are not marked to market, but carried at cost and impaired gradually.

The best known service dogs are guides for the visually impaired.

Weakening eyesight can be sharpened with lenses, and impaired hearing can be improved with aids.

People with autism frequently lack empathy, have poor social graces and are generally socially impaired.

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired.

Brain injury causes swelling and impaired blood flow, depriving the brain of oxygen.

The fact that there is a text-to-speech function would be a great help for visually impaired readers, or those with dyslexia.

BA still appears to be making a decent fist of running its impaired service.

The fit is slightly loose, not baggy, so riding is not impaired in any way.

New drugs to improve memory and cognitive performance in impaired individuals are under intensive study.

Most consumer electronics manufacturers have nothing to offer people with impaired vision.

Students have released a video game that makes it possible for visually impaired people to get in on the action.

Five months after the injury, her sight was still moderately impaired.

Growth is one, but growth may be impaired by high debt burdens.

Children's mental development can be impaired by low-level exposure to lead.

Formerly approved drug imparts lasting learning and memory improvements to impaired mice.

Research is being done to develop technology to put alcohol detection systems in vehicles to prevent impaired driving.

They really think that what they are doing is no big deal, and that they are not that impaired.

Texts for visually impaired college students are hard to come by.

The remaining two channels are not similarly impaired.

Big-screen enthusiasts will enjoy the new film program, which includes an inspiring story of a local, visually impaired team.

Intriguingly, such a reversal does not appear to render the fish reproductively impaired.

Patients with impaired vision often have difficulty reading the labels on their prescription drug bottles.

People with impaired immune systems are extremely susceptible to pneumonia.

Your right to employment isn't being significantly impaired.

First, impaired workers may be among the first to be sacked.

So the scientists got to wondering whether excessive infections might correlate with impaired cognitive development.

Well one student has thought up a way where the visually impaired can express themselves through tattoos that can be read.

Pneumonia is particularly serious in people with impaired immune systems.

All videos included would need captioning for hearing impaired students.

Live satellite images can be impaired by clouds and darkness.

Many clinicians advise people in severe depression not to make big decisions because their judgement is impaired.

Speech, swallowing and breathing are all impaired until life is no longer sustainable.

Such infections are more likely to occur in people with impaired immune systems.

American forces must have better logistics and be able to fight even when their information networks are impaired.

Includes several accessibility features to help the visually impaired.

It remains unclear whether the alcohol impaired his judgment.

After each operation, my grandfather was mentally impaired for several months, each time progressively longer.

It is time to move on this interface backwater and correct the fact that computers are hearing impaired.

Similarly, the brain's ability to problem solve is greatly impaired.

Tiny babies do tug at the heartstrings but raising a severely impaired child is heartbreakingly hard.

Limited accessibility for mobility impaired guests.

As a devoted friend of the blind and visually impaired.

These rules are deeply unpopular with many firms that have suffered losses and impaired capital positions.

Witkin was a renowned doctor of optometry and low vision specialist who helped the visually impaired regain their independence.

But an impaired or incompetent physician can present a real risk.

Pinochet has evaded prison only because strokes and heart disease have left him too impaired to stand trial.

Grabowski was arrested and charged with driving while impaired by alcohol.

Their actions, the report says, endangered the at-risk student and impaired the educational experience for other participants.

All autistic children suffer from an impaired ability to.

The accident permanently impaired his long-distant vision and depth perception.

It also makes it easy for family members or colleagues of hearing impaired individuals to access and use this learning resource.

They typically include impaired control of physical movements, mental.

Hong said he needs more feedback from the blind and visually impaired to refine the system.

Neither did a string of convictions for driving while impaired.

Awareness of their own condition and their environment is impaired and intermittent.

The goalie can be sighted or visually impaired and must stay in his designated goalie box.

The noise seriously impaired her enjoyment of the trip.

Symptoms or behavior of a repeated nature that impaired social, school, or work efficiency".

As you talk with him, you realize that his thinking also seems impaired.

Advocates for disabled voters have balked at a voter receipt because they say it would disenfranchise voters with impaired sight.

Goodwin was mentally impaired and should be barred from practicing.

Compulsory euthanasia of the severely disabled or the mentally impaired would be anathema to most.

Yet drivers themselves are sometimes unaware of sleepiness, reduced alertness and corresponding impaired driving.

His movements are limited and his speech is seriously impaired.

They even claimed the integrity of the system was impaired because a lot more.

These included headaches and impaired concentration.

We do not permit prisoners on hunger strike to refuse sustenance, nor parents of mentally impaired children to commit infanticide.

But that role is impaired by the short duration of benefits and their skimpy level.

Its set up for visually impaired users to access easily too, so something to think about if youre going blind from, um… you know.

Their ability to be comfortable during social interaction and maintain relationships is permanently impaired.

Depression and impaired ability to think also may develop.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.

verb (used without object)

to grow or become worse; lessen.

noun

Archaic. impairment.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English empairen, empeiren to make worse < Middle French empeirer, equivalent to em- im-¹ + peirer to make worse < Late Latin pējōrāre, equivalent to Latin pējōr-, stem of pējor worse + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix; compare pejorative

Related forms

im·pair·a·ble, adjective

im·pair·er, noun

im·pair·ment, noun

non·im·pair·ment, noun

pre·im·pair·ment, noun

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self-im·pair·a·ble, adjective

self-im·pair·ing, adjective

un·im·pair·a·ble, adjective

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Synonyms
1. See injure.

Antonyms
1. repair.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

impair

late 14c., earlier ampayre, apeyre (c.1300), from O.Fr. empeirier, from V.L. *impejorare "make worse," from L. in- "into" + L.L. pejorare "make worse," from pejor "worse." In ref. to driving under the influence of alcohol, first recorded 1951 in Canadian Eng.

Slang Dictionary

impaired definition

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. (Euphemistic.) : He was so impaired he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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