impairment
Use Impairment in a sentence
mənt noun
the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.
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World English Dictionary
impair (ɪmˈpɛə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| (tr) to reduce or weaken in strength, quality, etc: his hearing was impaired by an accident | |
| [C14: from Old French empeirer to make worse, from Late Latin pējorāre, from Latin pejor worse; see | |
| im'pairable | |
| —adj | |
| im'pairer | |
| —n | |
| im'pairment | |
| —n | |
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Impairment
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
impairment im·pair·ment (ĭm-pâr'mənt)
n.
Weakening, damage, or deterioration, especially as a result of injury or disease.
im·pair' v.
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Example sentences
Most go under a general heading of neurological because they reflect some impairment of overall function.
Aphasia is a language impairment secondary to stroke or head trauma.
This, they argue, is the direct cause of memory impairment.
Mental impairment is a common event in advanced cirrhosis.
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