Word Meanings - IMPAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: 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 diminish; decrease; injure; weaken; enfeeble; debilitate; reduce; debase; deteriorate. (more info) empirier, F. empirer, LL. impejorare; L. pref. im- in + pejorare to
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPAIR)
- Corrupt Spoil
- deteriorate
- impair
- putrefy
- vitiate
- demoralize
- debase
- defile
- contaminate
- pollute
- deprave
- Cripple
- Weaken
- curtail
- cramp
- disable
- Debase
- Degrade
- lower
- depress
- corrupt
- alloy
- disgrace
- humble
- Injure
- Damage
- wound
- hurt
- wrong
- maltreat
- cripple
- mar
- spoil
- sully
- harm
- Reduce
- Lessen
- diminish
- attenuate
- impoverish
- narrow
- contract
- weaken
- subdue
- subjugate
- bring
- refer
- subject
- classify
- convert
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPAIR)
- Expand
- amplify
- dilate
- elongate
- reverse
- cancel
- abandon
- Mend
- repair
- purify
- cleanse
- correct
- ameliorate
- better
- Hoist
- raise
- heighten
- exalt
- increase
- aggrandize
- elevate
Related words: (words related to IMPAIR)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - NARROW
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - BRACTLESS
Destitute of bracts. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - CRAMP
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.