Synonyms for impair
ɪmˈpɛərim·pair

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1. impair

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

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

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

1. impair

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

   Antonyms:
   enhance, improve, augment, repair

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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, 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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. impairverb

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, injure, vitiate, make worse

2. impairverb

   Synonyms:
   lessen, diminish, decrease, make less

3. impairverb

   Synonyms:
   weaken, enfeeble, enervate

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1. List of paraphrases for "impair":

   undermine, affect, harm, jeopardize, hinder, hamper, impede, prejudice, damage, alter, weaken, infringe

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How to use impair in a sentence?

1. Kristen Knutson:

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

2. 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.

3. Stephen Patton:

   (Chicago's law) doesn't diminish and impair pensions, it saves pensions, that argument has not been addressed.

4. 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.

5. Erica Reischer:

   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.