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impairment

/ɪmˈpɛəmənt/US/ɪmˈpɛɹmənt/

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impairment noun: the result of being impaired.

Noun

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

  1. The result of being impaired.
  2. A deterioration or weakening.
    • We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination...2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
  3. (medical model of disability) A disability or handicap.
    • visual impairment
  4. (social model of disability) A loss or absence of baseline human functioning that may lead to a disability.
  5. An inefficient part or factor.
  6. A downward revaluation, a write-down.

impairment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

impairment in Hindi

impairment, state of being handicapped
अपंगता apaṅgtā

impairment in Tamil

வலுக்குறை

impairment in Urdu

کمزوری, کمی, زخم

impairment in Malayalam

disability, handicap, abnormality
കോട്ടം, ഊനം, കേട്, ചേതം, ക്ഷതി, കെടുതി

Examples of impairment in a sentence

  • The theme of treatment failure of previous treatments plus continuing impairment (pain and poor function) appears among the indications for many types of joint replacement surgery.
  • Engaging extrahippocampal memory systems renders the task ineffective for quantifying HPC-based memory impairments.
  • This is typically the case in West London in vegetarian Indo-Asians with chronic renal impairment.

All 29 example sentences with impairment

Forms of impairment

pluralimpairments
alternative form (rare)empairment

Plural of impairment: impairments

Origin of impairment

From Middle English empeirement, empeyrement, emparement, from Anglo-Norman empairement, emperement, enpeirement, from Old French ampirement, anpirement, enperement, equivalent to impair + -ment.

Words formed from impairment

Phrases with impairment

Questions about impairment

What does impairment mean?
Impairment means the result of being impaired.
What is impairment in Hindi?
Impairment in Hindi is अपंगता (apaṅgtā). See Impairment meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is impairment?
Impairment is a noun.
How do you pronounce impairment?
Impairment is pronounced /ɪmˈpɛəmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of impairment?
The plural of impairment is impairments.

Words near impairment in the dictionary

  1. impairers
  2. impairest
  3. impaireth
  4. impairing
  5. impairings
  6. impairment
  7. impairments
  8. impairs
  9. impala
  10. impala lily
  11. impalace

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: impairment (page history and authors); अपंगता (Hindi) (page history and authors); impairment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impairment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impairment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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