impair

• empair (obsolete, rare)

From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, variant of empirier (“to worsen”), from Vulgar Latin *impēiōrō, from im- + Late Latin pēiōrō (“to make worse”), from peior (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛə/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

impair (third-person singular simple present impairs, present participle impairing, simple past and past participle impaired)

1. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

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• blunt, diminish, hurt, lessen, mar, reduce, weaken, worsen

• impairment

impair (comparative more impair, superlative most impair)

1. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.

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• impair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impair at OneLook Dictionary Search

im- +‎ pair.

impair (feminine singular impaire, masculine plural impairs, feminine plural impaires)

1. odd (of a number)

   3 est un nombre impair. ― 3 is an odd number.

• pair

• “impair” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• primai