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Impaired definition

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Having a physical or mental disability.

An impaired child in need of special assistance.

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Diminished, damaged, or weakened.

An impaired sense of smell.

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Disabled; handicapped.

Visually impaired.

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Having a physical or mental disability.
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Functioning poorly or incompetently.

A driver so tired as to be impaired.

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People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group.

A swimming class for the physically impaired.

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Diminished, damaged, or weakened.

An impaired sense of smell.

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Functioning poorly or incompetently.

A driver so tired as to be impaired.

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People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group. Usually used in combination.

Communication aids for the speech-impaired.

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Rendered less effective.

His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.

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Simple past tense and past participle of impair.
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A criminal charge for impaired driving.

The cop gave me an impaired.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
impaired
Plural:
impaireds

Impaired Sentence Examples

  • An attack of illness in November 1900 seriously impaired his health.

  • The authority of the pontificate was seriously impaired by these circumstances.

  • The Ob-Yenisei canal is ready for use, but its actual usefulness is impaired by the scarcity of water in the smaller streams forming part of the system.

  • Albania, the traditional claim of France to protect Roman Catholics in the Ottoman Empire has been greatly impaired by the non-religious character of the Republic. Like Italy, she is now regarded by Eastern Catholics with distrust as an enemy of the Holy Father.

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