| 单词 | impair |
| 释义 | impair (once / 757 pages) v If you make bad decisions in the morning after drinking coffee, you might conclude that caffeine tends to impair your judgment. When you impair something, you damage it or make it work poorly. The root of the verb impair traces back to the Latin word pejorare, meaning “to make worse,” and that’s still what happens if you impair something. Whether it’s communication, visibility, or your marriage prospects, if you impair it, you make it worse. The word can be used for situations that describe something that has deteriorated, such as “Snow continued to impair driving conditions.” WORD FAMILYimpair: impaired, impairer, impairing, impairment, impairs+/impaired: unimpaired/impairer: impairers/impairment: impairments USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say Robert Stevens didn’t appear to be impaired by alcohol or drugs, and it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the car to accelerate. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Iowa Statewide Impaired Driver Plan offers a blueprint for lawmakers to act. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Officers arrested 13 suspected impaired drivers, including two in Warwick, four in Cranston, one in Foster, two in Burrillville and one in Bristol. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v make worse or less effective His vision was impaired Hyper damage inflict damage upon 2v make imperfect Syn|Hypo|Hyper deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate cloud, corrupt, defile, sully, taint place under suspicion or cast doubt upon blemish, deface, disfiguremar or spoil the appearance of mangle, maulinjure badly by beating mark, pit, pock, scarmark with a scar damage inflict damage upon |
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