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empair

empair verb: to match, pair up, or combine. Also the obsolete form of impair.

Verb

empair (third-person singular simple present empairs, present participle empairing, simple past and past participle empaired)

  1. (obsolete) To match, pair up, or combine.
    • A Table for emparing the English Foot with Foreign measures, in English.1767, James Ferguson, Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences, page 270
    • In emparing the above analysis with that of the Extract of Malt, of the German Pbarmacopoea, as given by Hager, that has been so generally received by the profession, I find it to substantially agree with that article.1878, The Carolina Medical Journal - Volumes 1-2, page 368

Also used as

empair is also the obsolete form of impair.

Forms of empair

third-person singular presentempairs
present participleempairing
past participleempaired
pastempaired

Words formed from empair

Questions about empair

What does empair mean?
Empair means to match, pair up, or combine.
What part of speech is empair?
Empair is a verb.
What is the past tense of empair?
The past tense of empair is empaired.

Words near empair in the dictionary

  1. empacketing
  2. empackets
  3. empadão
  4. empaestic
  5. empagliflozin
  6. empair
  7. empaire
  8. empaired
  9. empaires
  10. empairing
  11. empairment

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