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Synonyms for impair
ɪmˈpɛərim·pair
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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impairverb
make worse or less effective
"His vision was impaired"
mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiateverb
make imperfect
"nothing marred her beauty"
Synonyms:
pamper, frustrate, debase, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, deflower, demoralise, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pervert, demoralize, fumble, flub, rape, thwart, ruin, ball up, subvert, featherbed, bollocks up, plunder, bollocks, baffle, mess up, despoil, vitiate, invalidate, louse up, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, mutilate, void, deprave, cocker, misdirect, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, coddle, bollix up, debauch, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bodge
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#669 | baby | |
#772 | mar | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1605 | rape | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2448 | void | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3140 | affect | |
#6159 | harm | |
#7413 | alter | |
#10456 | prejudice | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#12746 | violate | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#20396 | indulge | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21475 | diminish | |
#22854 | hinder | |
#23611 | hamper | |
#25048 | lessen | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26507 | itch | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#27548 | infringe | |
#27618 | cocker | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29400 | impede | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#31815 | pamper | |
#32543 | profane | |
#33911 | muff | |
#34032 | invalidate | |
#34306 | injure | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#35532 | jeopardize | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#37254 | plunder | |
#37387 | deteriorate | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#43554 | blemish | |
#47884 | depress | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#51579 | subvert | |
#51950 | tarnish | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#55038 | aggravate | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#99054 | featherbed | |
#102812 | mutilate | |
#104177 | botch | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#121624 | vitiate | |
#162842 | coddle | |
#162847 | debase | |
#163167 | demoralize | |
#212610 | debauch | |
#220019 | flub | |
#228192 | despoil | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#232391 | misdirect | |
#284974 | deflower | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use impair in a sentence?
We’re living longer and we are healthier and we have better health care, health itself can be an issue, but it should n’t be related to age in a way that suggests it would impair your ability to be president.
You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Those phrases are using shame, blame and fear to motivate behavior, when we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child.
I take congressman Nunes' point that this has created a cloud over the Trump White House right now, that will probably impair their ability to advance their legislative agenda.
Translations for impair
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- vermindern, beeinträchtigen, verschlechtern, schwächen, schädigen, beschädigen, schmälernGerman
- descomponer, empeorar, deteriorarSpanish
- خدشه دار کردنPersian
- haitata, heikentääFinnish
- affaiblir, abîmer, détériorerFrench
- domajarIdo
- beschadigen, verzwakken, verslechterenDutch
- piorar, diminuir, enfraquecer, prejudicar, empiorarPortuguese
- ослаблятьRussian
- azaltmak, zayıflatmak, zarar vermek, sınırlamak, kötüleştirmekTurkish
- 妨害Chinese
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