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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to weaken or diminish in function, ability, or quality;

e.g. A broken leg is liable to impair a person's ability to walk.

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Similar Words

Bang-up

Blemish

Bloody

Break

Compromise

Crab

Cripple

Damage

Deface

Ding

Disfigure

Endamage

Flaw

Harm

Hurt

Injure

Kneecap

Mar

Misadjust

Piffle

Scotch

Spoil

Undermine

Vitiate

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Opposite Words

Advantage

Allay

Alleviate

Ameliorate

Amend

Assuage

Avail

Benefit

Better

Conserve

Cure

Debug

Doctor

Ease

Edit

Emend

Enhance

Enrich

Fix

Fortify

Harden

Heal

Help

Improve

Keep up

Maintain

Maintainability

Mend

Mitigate

Mitigation

Modulate

Mollify

Palliate

Patch

Pencil

Perfect

Physic

Preserve

Profit

Rebuild

Recondition

Reconstruct

Rectify

Redraw

Refine

Reform

Refurbish

Rehab

Rehabilitate

Relieve

Remediate

Remedy

Remodel

Renovate

Repair

Retouch

Revamp

Revise

Rewrite

Save

Serve

Setup

Soothe

Strengthen

Toughen

Upgrade

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Related Words

Abase

Annihilate

Bash

Bastardize

Batter

Blight

Blow

Bobble

Boggle

Boot

Botch

Bumble

Bungle

Butcher

Canker

Cheapen

Clobber

Corrupt

Cream

Cripple

Crush

Damage

Dash

Debase

Debauch

Debilitate

Decimate

Deface

Degrade

Demean

Demolish

Demoralize

Dent

Deprave

Desolate

Destroy

Deteriorate

Devastate

Devitalize

Ding

Dint

Disable

Dub

Enervate

Enfeeble

Erode

Etiolate

Extinguish

Flub

Fluff

Foozle

Foul-up

Fumble

Hamstring

Harm

Hurt

Incapacitate

Injure

Lacerate

Lame

Lessen

Maim

Mangle

Muff

Murder

Mutilate

Mutilation

Nuke

Pervert

Poison

Profane

Prostitute

Prostrate

Pull

Pulverize

Queer

Rack

Raze

Ruin

Scour

Scourge

Screwup

Shatter

Smash

Soften

Strain

Stretch

Subvert

Tarnish

Tire

Torment

Torture

Total

Trash

Undermine

Vandalize

Vaporize

Vitiate

Warp

Waste

Weaken

Wound

Wrack

Wreck

Wrench

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