Both Uses of
impair
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 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
Definition:
make worse or less effective