Antonyms for impair
ɪmˈpɛərim·pair

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. impair

   Antonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repair

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. impair

   Antonyms:
   enhance, improve, augment, repair

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, injure, reduce, damage, enfeeble, vitiate, diminish, lessen

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1. • Damage

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. impairverb

   make worse or less effective

   "His vision was impaired"

   Synonyms:
   mar, deflower, spoil, vitiate

2. mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiateverb

   make imperfect

   "nothing marred her beauty"

   Synonyms:
   pamper, frustrate, debase, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, 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

How to use impair in a sentence?

1. Commissioner Ricky Arriola:

   Where is that leadership now? we will not bend to the will of the mob. We will continue to enforce our laws. We're in a bad spot right now because we're taking draconian actions, such as curfews, that impair businesses… the convenience of our residents.

2. Ginger Hultin:

   Drinking alcohol can impair the liver's ability to release the right amount of glycogen, or stored glucose, into the blood to keep blood glucose levels stable.

3. Dave Joly:

   Disclosure of an individual's inclusion or non-inclusion in the TSDB (screening databases) would significantly impair the government's ability to investigate and counteract terrorism.

4. Ken Cook:

   Children and farm workers in California will no longer be exposed to this neurotoxic pesticide that can permanently impair the brain and nervous systems.

5. Amy Arnsten:

   These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.

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