Synonyms of the word impair


IMPAIRDAMAGE - DEFLOWER - MAR - SPOIL - VITIATE

impair

  • v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

damage

  • n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  • n. (slang) Cost or expense.
  • v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

deflower

  • v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

mar

  • v. To spoil, to damage.
  • n. A blemish.
  • n. A small lake.

spoil

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

vitiate

  • v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
  • v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
  • v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.

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