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