appair

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.

Verb

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appair (third-person singular simple present appairs, present participle appairing, simple past and past participle appaired)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To make worse; to injure or damage.
    • 1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes:
      The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded []
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become impaired; to grow worse.

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