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1. Diminished in strength, quality, or utility
   "impaired eyesight"
    
2. Mentally or physically unfit
   - afflicted

1. Make worse or less effective
   "His vision was impaired"
    
2. Make imperfect
   "nothing impaired her beauty";
   - mar, spoil, deflower, vitiate, pollute

See also: anosmic, broken, damaged, dickey [Brit, informal], dicky [Brit, informal], diminished, dysfunctional, dyslectic, dyslexic, injured, lessened, unfit, vitiated, weakened

Type of: damage

Antonym: unimpaired

Encyclopedia: Impaired