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Impairment   /ɪmpˈɛrmənt/   Listen
Impairment

noun
1.
The occurrence of a change for the worse.  Synonyms: damage, harm.
2.
A symptom of reduced quality or strength.  Synonym: deterioration.
3.
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.  Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap.  "Hearing impairment"
4.
Damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality.
5.
The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).  Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification.



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"Impairment" Quotes from Famous Books



... dissection has revealed no signs of structural or functional derangement, and, that, on the other hand, considerable encephalic disorganisation has been shown to have existed in other cases without aberration or impairment of the reason: but such phenomena are to be considered as pathological curiosities, with which the empiric would fain endeavour to disturb the sound general conclusions of science. The only safe mode of reasoning on matters so delicate and profound is a priori: and, as it may safely ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... has the honor to make the following reply to his Excellency Ambassador Gerard to the note of the 10th ultimo re the impairment of American interests by ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various

... engines; and weight, if given to speed, is taken from other qualities; and if, to increase speed, you reduce fighting power, you increase something you cannot certainly hold, at the expense of something at once much more important and more constant—less liable to impairment. In the operation just cited the loss of speed was comparatively of little account; but the question of fighting force ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... of,' Dick answered, and I could hear that cold, hard, judicial note come into his voice. Smith could not understand. Dick told him. 'The thing you have been guilty of, Mr. Smith, is the scene, the disturbance, the scandal, the wagging of the women's tongues now going on forty to the minute, the impairment of the discipline and order of the ranch, all of which is boiled down to the one grave thing, the hurt ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... the causes of glaucoma. Normal tension is maintained with a continuous flow of fluid into the eye and a corresponding outflow. Complete interruption of the nutritional stream would be speedy death; partial interruption may be held responsible for most of the visual impairment and pain ...
— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various


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