Word Meanings - EMPAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To impair. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to EMPAIR)

• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• IMPAIR
  To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value. Time sensibly all things impairs. Roscommon. In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. Pope. Syn. -- To
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNIMPAIRABLE
  That can not be impaired. Hakewill.