Word Meanings - APPAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To impair; to grow worse.

IMPAIRMENT
The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
IMPAIRER
One who, or that which, impairs.
WORSE
Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew
WORSER
Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
WORSEN
1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst.
IMPAIR
To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value. Time sensibly all things impairs. Roscommon. In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. Pope. Syn. -- To
UNIMPAIRABLE
That can not be impaired. Hakewill.