apair

Middle English

Verb

apair

1. To impair or become impaired; to injure.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Prologue, v. 39-40

     It is a sinne and eek a greet folye

     To apairen any man or him defame

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “apair”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)