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. Seneca:

   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.

2. Cervantes:

   The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

3. Ryan Pack:

   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.

4. Kristen Knutson:

   Circadian misalignment could also lead to inadequate sleep duration and quality, which could also impair mood and exacerbate mood disorders.

5. Juergen Hardt:

   That the U.S. ambassador is now turning to German companies with direct threats is a new and unacceptable one-sided tightening of the tone in the transatlantic relationship, if the U.S. president thinks he has to publicly show he is getting tough on Russia in view of the many question marks regarding his relationship with Moscow, he should not thereby impair the relationship with his most important ally.

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