Sample Sentences for
impair
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    He thought that he might be permanently blind, or at least impaired, and that would have been the end.  (source)
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    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
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    Nearly four times as many Hispanic drivers as non-Hispanic drivers in North Carolina have been charged with driving while impaired.  (source)
    impaired = less effective
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    Hawat's mind will be so filled with this prospect it'll impair his function as a Mentat.†  (source)
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    Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack!†  (source)
    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.
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    There are people who say that Miss Florence Nightingale does not have a refined nature, or she would not have been able to witness such degrading spectacles without impairing her health.†  (source)
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    I'm crappy at math, but K's math impairment makes me look like a genius.  (source)
    impairment = a condition of being less effective
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    The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments.†  (source)
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    Glaedr has his wound, and I have my own ....impairments.†  (source)
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    No whooping-cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots.  (source)
    impaired = made less effective
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    The magus would never do anything to impair my usefulness.†  (source)
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    He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.†  (source)
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