Synonyms of the word

impairment

• n. The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part…
• n. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

alteration

• n. The act of altering or making different.
• n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

constipation

• n. Act of crowding anything into a lesser compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
• n. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become…

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.

deadening

• v. present participle of deaden.
• n. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

debasement

• n. The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
• n. The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

decay

• n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
• n. A deterioration of condition.
• v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
• v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
• v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

degradation

• n. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or…
• n. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual…
• n. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
• n. (geology) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
• n. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural…
• n. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
• n. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
• n. The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold…

deterioration

• n. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

disability

• n. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual,…
• n. A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
• n. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.

disablement

• n. (formal) The action of disabling or the state of being disabled.

handicap

• n. Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
• n. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest…
• n. (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages…
• n. A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage,…
• n. (obsolete, card game) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To place at disadvantage.
• v. To estimate betting odds.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

modification

• n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
• n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
• n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
• n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
• n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

scathe

• n. Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.
• v. (archaic) To injure.

softness

• n. The quality of being soft.

stultification

• n. The process of stultifying.
• n. The state of being stultified.

unfitness

• n. The characteristic of being unfit or ill-suited.
• n. The characteristic of being unfit or out of physical shape.