Impaired Definition

ĭm-pârd
adjective
Diminished, damaged, or weakened.
An impaired sense of smell.
American Heritage Medicine
Disabled; handicapped.
Visually impaired.
Webster's New World
Functioning poorly or incompetently.
A driver so tired as to be impaired.
American Heritage Medicine
Having a physical or mental disability.
American Heritage Medicine
Rendered less effective.
His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.
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noun
People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group.
A swimming class for the physically impaired.
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A criminal charge for impaired driving.

The cop gave me an impaired.
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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of impair.

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Other Word Forms of Impaired

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.

  • The burden of taxation became more and more intolerable as the power of Rome decreased, and the loyalty of her remaining provinces was seriously impaired in consequence.

  • 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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Words Starting With

IIMIMP

Words Ending With

DEDRED

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impaired

Words Starting With I and Ending With D

Starts With I & Ends With DStarts With IM & Ends With DStarts With I & Ends With ED

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With I8 Letter Words Ending With D