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  • My left impaired, I sailed in with my right, but not for long.  (source)
  • Nearly four times as many Hispanic drivers as non-Hispanic drivers in North Carolina have been charged with driving while impaired.  (source)
  • They continued to sit, gazing with impaired sight at the chief's seat and the glittering lagoon.  (source)
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  • '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.  (source)
    impaired = made less effective
  • "Okay — no wind to speak of — sun's a bit bright, that could impair your vision, watch out for it — ground's fairly hard, good, that'll give us a fast kickoff —" Wood paced the field, staring around with the team behind him.†  (source)
  • During the first week of the mouse diet I found that my vigor remained unimpaired, and that I suffered no apparent ill effects.†  (source)
    unimpaired = not hindered (weakened or interfered with)
    standard prefix: 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.
  • You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory.†  (source)
  • I'm crappy at math, but K's math impairment makes me look like a genius.  (source)
    impairment = a condition of being less effective
  • It impairs us.†  (source)
    impairs = makes worse or less effective
  • Such was my boast while vigour crown'd my days, Now care surrounds me, and my force decays; Inured a melancholy part to bear In scenes of death, by tempest and by war Yet thus by woes impair'd, no more I waive To prove the hero—slander stings the brave.†  (source)
  • Glaedr has his wound, and I have my own ....impairments.†  (source)
  • On day seven, I went to the Center for the Blind and read articles to visually impaired students.  (source)
    impaired = less effective
  • Hadn't the duke given her enough bloodbane to seriously impair the assassin?†  (source)
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