impair
verb (used with object)
to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage.
were impairing
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past progressiveof impair.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You could undergo a myomectomy to remove fibroids that were impairing your fertility, only to end up with a hysterectomy performed to staunch life-threatening bleeding.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018
They could breathe more freely, and if they could not talk could at least think, without the sense that they were impairing the natural homage of all things to the recently dead.
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
