impair

  • 11impair — [v] harm, hinder blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate, decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding*, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, lose strength, make useless, mar,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 12impair — ► VERB ▪ weaken or damage. DERIVATIVES impairment noun. ORIGIN Old French empeirier, from Latin pejorare make worse …

    English terms dictionary

  • 13impair — [im per′] vt. [ME empeiren < OFr empeirer < VL * impejorare < L in , intens. + LL pejorare, to make worse: see PEJORATIVE] to make worse, less, weaker, etc.; damage; reduce SYN. INJURE impairment n …

    English World dictionary

  • 14Impair — Parité (arithmétique) En arithmétique modulaire, étudier la parité d un entier, c est déterminer si cet entier est ou non un multiple de deux. Un entier multiple de deux est un entier pair, les autres sont les entiers impairs. Sommaire 1 Histoire …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 15IMPAIR — AIRE. adj. T. d Arithm., opposé à Pair. Il se dit Des nombres entiers qui ne sont pas composés de couples complets d unités. Trois, cinq, sept, etc., sont des nombres impairs. Tout nombre impair, étant divisé par deux, donne l unité pour reste.… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 16impair — 01. Drinking alcohol [impairs] one s ability to drive a car safely. 02. My neighbor lost his driver s license after he was stopped by police, and charged with [impaired] driving. 03. My father s hearing was [impaired] by the noise of working on… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 17impair — im|pair 〈[ɛ̃pɛ:r] Adj.; Roulett〉 ungerade (von Zahlen); Ggs pair [frz.] * * * im|pair [ɛ̃ pɛ:ɐ̯] <Adj.> [frz. impair < mfrz. impar < lat. impar, aus: im ↑ (in ) u. par, ↑ Paar]: (von den Zahlen beim Roulette) ungerade. * * * impair  … …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 18impair — UK [ɪmˈpeə(r)] / US [ɪmˈper] verb [transitive] Word forms impair : present tense I/you/we/they impair he/she/it impairs present participle impairing past tense impaired past participle impaired formal to make something less good or effective,… …

    English dictionary

  • 19impair — impairable, adj. impairer, n. impairment, n. /im pair /, v.t. 1. to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one s health; to impair negotiations. v.i. 2. to grow or become worse;… …

    Universalium

  • 20impair — [14] If to repair something is to ‘put it right’, it seems logical that to impair something should be to ‘make it wrong’. In fact, though, logic has nothing to do with it, for the two words are quite unrelated. Repair comes ultimately from Latin… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins