IMPAIR: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IMPAIR?

Need another word that means the same as “impair”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “impair” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Impair” are: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate, damage, harm, diminish, reduce, weaken, lessen, decrease, blunt, impede, hinder, disable

Impair as a Verb

Definitions of "Impair" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “impair” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Make imperfect.
• Make worse or less effective.
• Weaken or damage (something, especially a faculty or function.

Synonyms of "Impair" as a verb (15 Words)

blunt	Make dull or blunt. Wood can blunt your axe.
damage	Suffer or be susceptible to damage. The snow damaged the roof.
decrease	Decrease in size extent or range. The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester.
deflower	Make imperfect. This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village.
diminish	Make or become less. The pain will gradually diminish.
disable	Make unable to perform a certain action. He was disabled in a car accident.
harm	Cause or do harm to. These pills won t harm your system.
hinder	Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of. The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements.
impede	Be a hindrance or obstacle to. The sap causes swelling which can impede breathing.
lessen	Make or become less; diminish. The warmth of the afternoon lessened.
mar	Destroy or injure severely. Violence marred a number of New Year celebrations.
reduce	Reduce in size reduce physically. He reduced the population to slavery.
spoil	Make imperfect. She was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family.
vitiate	Make imperfect. Development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population.
weaken	Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of. Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks.

Usage Examples of "Impair" as a verb

• A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing.
• His vision was impaired.

Associations of "Impair" (30 Words)

contusion	A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise. A dark contusion on his cheek was beginning to swell.
damage	Suffer or be susceptible to damage. She damaged the car when she hit the tree.
deface	Mar or spoil the appearance of. Scars defaced her cheeks.
deformed	(of a person or part of the body) not having the normal or natural shape or form; misshapen. His deformed hands.
detriment	A cause of harm or damage. Such tests are a detriment to good education.
disable	(of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities. The raiders tried to disable the alarm system.
disfigure	Spoil the appearance of. The vandals disfigured the statue.
excoriate	Tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading. The discharge is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose.
fatality	A death resulting from an accident or a disaster. A sense of fatality gripped her.
hamstring	Cripple by cutting the hamstring. He pulled a hamstring.
hurt	Hurt the feelings of. Our business was hurt by the new competition.
injure	Cause injuries or bodily harm to. He injured his back helping the girl.
injury	An instance of being injured. An ankle injury.
irremediable	Impossible to remedy or correct or redress. Irremediable marital breakdowns.
lacerate	Cut or tear irregularly. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself as she lacerates our obsession with celebrity.
maim	Wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged. 100 000 soldiers were killed or maimed.
mangle	Press with a mangle. The car was mangled almost beyond recognition.
mar	A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something especially on a person s body. Violence marred a number of New Year celebrations.
maul	Take part in a maul. A man was mauled by a lion at London Zoo.
mischief	A wrong or hardship that a statute is designed to remove or for which the common law affords a remedy. Her eyes twinkled with irrepressible mischief.
mutilate	Destroy or injure severely. The fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century.
ruin	Fall into ruin. You have brought ruin on this entire family.
scarred	Blemished by injury or rough wear. The fire left her arm badly scarred.
spoil	The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it. To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
throes	Intense or violent pain and struggle, especially accompanying birth, death, or great change. He convulsed in his death throes.
trauma	Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. Rupture of the diaphragm caused by blunt trauma.
twinge	A sharp stab of pain. Twinges of conscience.
vitiate	Destroy or impair the legal validity of. The insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant.
wound	The act of inflicting a wound. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound that he will never get over it.