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impairs

impairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impair.

Meaning of impair

Verb

impair (third-person singular simple present impairs, present participle impairing, simple past and past participle impaired)

  1. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
    • In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
    • Flesh may empaire,[…]but reason can repaire.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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What is impairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Impairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of impair.

Words near impairs in the dictionary

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

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