impaired
weakened, diminished, or damaged: to rebuild an impaired bridge.
functioning poorly or inadequately: Consumption of alcohol results in an impaired driver.
deficient or incompetent (usually preceded by an adverb or noun): morally impaired; sports-impaired.
Origin of impaired
1Other words from impaired
- un·im·paired, adjective
Words Nearby impaired
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How to use impaired in a sentence
Some sites require a short hike to the ruins, but most are fully accessible to those with impaired mobility.
If you’re visually impaired, you’ll need assistance if you go to get groceries.
Now, increasing evidence suggests that a significant minority of Covid-19 patients get very ill because of an impaired interferon response.
Covid-19 scientists flag key immune function as a turning point in life threatening cases | kdunn6 | September 25, 2020 | FortuneThis is why you need legible text for the visually impaired.
How to make your website ADA-compliant and win at SEO | Abhishek Shah | September 21, 2020 | Search Engine WatchAs Gunnar and others have shown, impaired stress responses can return to normal during puberty, raising the possibility that imbalances created by early trauma can be erased.
Puberty can repair the brain’s stress responses after hardship early in life | Esther Landhuis | August 28, 2020 | Science News
Girma realized that law was her best tool to get equal footing for herself and the wider population of impaired Americans.
TEDx Talks Have a Disability Problem—but This Incredible Young Woman Is Working to Change That | Nina Strochlic | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fewer diagnostic criteria required to call a person impaired, the more “any difficulty whatsoever” can be deemed impairment.
Hockey outcomes are not obstacles to the mathematically impaired.
The results showed that while THC and alcohol combined impaired driving, THC had only a negligible effect on driving.
Four broke off Ambien usage after experiencing impaired concentration, continuing or aggravated depression, and manic reaction.
A friendship had arisen between them, which the years had idealized rather than impaired.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeOf course if both parties agree to them, the validity of the deed is not impaired.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesMadame Roland devoted herself so entirely to the studies in which her husband was engaged that her health was seriously impaired.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottMrs. Veal had been, subject to fits, and she asks if Mrs. Bargrave does not think she is "mightily impaired by her fits?"
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts | George CruikshankTheir main features are unchanged, although time and decay have greatly impaired their structure and defaced their beauty.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
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