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Definition

make worse or less effective

Alcohol impairs the ability to drive safely.

impairs = makes worse

Her vision is impaired.

impaired = less effective (than normal)

His speech was miraculously unimpaired by his cigar.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

unimpaired = not made worse

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unimpaired means not and reverses the meaning of impaired. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

On day seven, I went to the Center for the Blind and read articles to visually impaired students.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

impaired = less effective

Nearly four times as many Hispanic drivers as non-Hispanic drivers in North Carolina have been charged with driving while impaired.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

impaired = less effective

He thought that he might be permanently blind, or at least impaired, and that would have been the end.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet

impaired = less effective

I'm crappy at math, but K's math impairment makes me look like a genius.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

impairment = a condition of being less effective

'You're the only one in the squadron who knows I'm a C.I.D. man,' he confided to Major Major, 'and it's absolutely essential that it remain a secret so that my efficiency won't be impaired.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

impaired = made less effective

After the first two passes with the cape Romero knew exactly how bad the vision was impaired.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

impaired = made worse

They continued to sit, gazing with impaired sight at the chief's seat and the glittering lagoon.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

impaired = less effective

My left impaired, I sailed in with my right, but not for long.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

impaired = less effective

Clearly he did need some things explained to him by a teenager, but I didn't think it was the right time to mention his unfortunate and obvious fashion impairment.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
He resolved to remain binocular and specified to Doc Daneeka that his eye patch be transparent so that he could continue pitching horseshoes, kidnaping Italian laborers and renting apartments with unimpaired vision.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unimpaired means not and reverses the meaning of impaired. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

No whooping-cough did rack his frame,
Nor measles drear with spots;
Not these impaired the sacred name
Of Stephen Dowling Bots.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

impaired = made less effective

Clarke sat quite still for a minute, then he said: "Rouge, impair, manque!
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
As if his memory were impaired, or his faculties disordered, the prisoner made an effort to rally his attention.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
His alcohol level was probably over the legal limit, meaning he was impaired.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
Hadn't the duke given her enough bloodbane to seriously impair the assassin?
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
THESEUS His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

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