IMPAIR, IMPAIRED, IMPAIRMENT
ADJECTIVES
► ACRAZED weakened, enfeebled, diseased in body, affected with illness, indisposed; impaired → 1521 obs.
► CRAZED impaired, damaged; ruined in estate, bankrupt; of cracked reputation → 1600 obs.
► CRAZY full of cracks or flaws; damaged, impaired, unsound; liable to break or fall to pieces; frail → 1583
► IMPAIRABLE capable of being impaired → a1665
► PALLED enfeebled, weakened, impaired → c1386 obs.
► RUSTED ► RUSTED UP impaired by disuse, inactivity, or age; lacking alertness or vitality; sluggish → 1556
► SUFFERING becoming impaired by use → 1601 obs.
► UNAPPAIRABLE incapable of being impaired; unfading → 1574 obs.
► WRACK damaged, impaired,, injured → 1487 obs.
NOUNS
► IMPEACHMENT detriment, impairment, injury, damage → 1548 obs.
► MARRING injury, harm, impairment → 1357 obs.
► PAIR impairment, abatement → c1375 obs.
► PAIRING injury, damage, impairment → 1382 obs.
► PAIRMENT impairment; injury, deterioration → c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RUST a deteriorating or impairing effect or influence on the character, mind, or body, esp. as the result of inactivity, or lack of use → a1000
► RUSTING a deteriorating or becoming impaired, esp. through inactivity or lack of use → 1597
► WRACK 1. something in an impaired, wrecked, or shattered condition → a1586
2. a damaged or injured part; damage, impairment → 1610 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PAIRER one who impairs → c1400 obs.
► WRACK a person in impaired, wrecked, or shattered condition → a1586
PHRASES
► A FEW FRIES SHORT OF A HAPPY MEAL. intellectually impaired, deranged, eccentric → 2002 sl.
VERBS
► ACRAZE to weaken, to impair, to enfeeble → 1549 obs.
► AWEM to pollute or impair physically; to damage; to injure → c1275 obs.
► CRAZE to destroy the soundness of, to impair, to ruin; to ruin financially, to render bankrupt → 1573 obs.
► IMBECILE to make imbecile, weak, or impotent; to impair, to weaken, to enfeeble, to debilitate → 1593-40 obs.
► IMPEACH to hinder the action, progress, or well-being of; to affect detrimentally or prejudicially; to hurt, to harm, to injure, to endamage, to impair → 1563 obs.
► IMPERISH to impair, to injure, to make worse → 1494 obs.
► JAZZ UP to confuse; to mess up; to interfere with; to ruin or impair; to botch → 1917 Amer. sl.
► LABEFY to weaken, to impair; to cause to fall → 1620 obs.
► MANK to maim, to mangle, to mutilate; to make defective; to impair, to spoil → a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc.
► QUAIL to spoil, to impair → 1551 obs.
► TAINT to affect injuriously; to cause detriment to; to hurt, to injure, to impair → 1601 obs.
► UNAPPAIR to become impaired; to fade → 1426 obs.