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Impairment

noun

The occurrence of a change for the worse. Synonyms: damage, harm.

A symptom of reduced quality or strength. Synonym: deterioration.

The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness. Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap. "Hearing impairment"

Damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality.

The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine). Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification.

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"Impairment" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dick answered, and I could hear that cold, hard, judicial note come into his voice. Smith could not understand. Dick told him. 'The thing you have been guilty of, Mr. Smith, is the scene, the disturbance, the scandal, the wagging of the women's tongues now going on forty to the minute, the impairment of the discipline and order of the ranch, all of which is boiled down to the one grave thing, the hurt to ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... to perish by atrophy with the extension of even elementary scientific culture. This is why socialism does not feel the necessity of waging a special warfare against these religious beliefs which are destined to disappear. It has assumed this attitude although it knows that the absence or the impairment of the belief in God is one of the most powerful factors for its extension, because the priests of all religions have been, throughout all the phases of history, the most potent allies of the ruling classes in keeping the masses pliant and submissive under the yoke by means ...

— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri

... bourgeoisie, the naked policy of provocation gave way to one of cowardly distrust of the peoples of Russia, to a policy of fault-finding, of meaningless "freedom" and "equality" of peoples. The results of such a policy are known: the growth of national enmity, the impairment of mutual confidence. ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... of any licit or illicit chemical substance that results in physical, mental, emotional, or behavioral impairment in an individual. ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... reflects back upon ourselves. Haven't we often heard a man say: "He is all right but...!" Perhaps the personality in question was untidy, or that his walk was that of a laggard, or that he affected an egotistical air of superiority—whatever the impairment it should have been done ...

— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks

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