impair

English

Alternative forms

• empair (rare)

Etymology

From Old French empeirier, from Vulgar Latin *impeiorare, from in- + Late Latin peiorare (“to make worse”), from peior (“worse”), a comparative of malus (“bad”).

Verb

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

1. to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.

Derived terms

• impairment

Translations

have a diminishing effect on

Finnish: haitata (fi), heikentää (fi) French: détériorer (fr), abîmer (fr), affaiblir (fr) German: beeinträchtigen (1), schädigen (de) (reputation), beschädigen (de), schwächen (de), vermindern (de), verschlechtern (de), schmälern (de) Portuguese: prejudicar, enfraquecer, diminuir

Romanian: a afecta in mod negativ, a diminua efectul, a subrezi Russian: ослаблять (ru) (oslablját’) Spanish: deteriorar (es), empeorar (es), descomponer (es) Turkish: azaltmak (tr), kötüleştirmek (tr), zarar vermek (tr) (reputation), zayıflatmak (tr), sınırlamak (tr)

External links

• impair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• impair in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• impair at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Adjective

impair m. (f. impaire, m. plural impairs, f. plural impaires)

1. odd (of a number)

   3 est un nombre impair. - 3 is an odd number.

Antonyms

• pair

References

• “impair” in the Portail lexical, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, 2012.

Anagrams

• primai