Impair

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  • transitive verb. To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish, as in quality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make worse; diminish in quantity, value, excellence, strength, or any other desirable quality; deteriorate; weaken; enfeeble: as, to impair the health or character; to impair one's fortune.
  • Synonyms To lessen, decrease, reduce, injure.
  • To become worse; be lessened or enfeebled; deteriorate.
  • noun. Diminution; decrease; loss; injury; disgrace.
  • Unequal; unworthy; unjust.
  • Not one of a pair; odd; unmatched.
  • noun. An impaired or odd thing; an article without a mate.
  • noun. In roulette, an odd number.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • transitive verb. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate.
  • noun. Diminution; injury.
  • adjective. Not fit or appropriate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
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  • verb. make worse or less effective
  • verb. make imperfect