Both Uses
impair
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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- HERMIA Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense:—Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.†
Scene 3.2
- THESEUS His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered.†
Scene 5.1 *impaired = made worse or less effective
Definitions:
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(1)
(impair) make worse or less effective
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)