as in damaging
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
already impaired by a crack, the windshield shattered upon impact with the baseball
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Recent Examples of impairing
By impairing onboard cameras and targeting optics, the platform offers a non-kinetic method of mitigating UAV threats without physically destroying the aircraft.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
These compounds may block iodine transport to the thyroid, impairing thyroid function.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 4 Mar. 2026
This leads to worsening loss of movement, impairing the ability to walk, use the hands and arms, speak, chew, and swallow.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Chronic stress strains your heart, impedes immune function, interferes with digestion, even risks impairing focus and memory.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 19 Feb. 2026
Studies will examine both the therapeutic and impairing effects of cannabis, psilocybin, MDMA and alcohol.
—Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
Even a single variant can disrupt protein function by impairing subunit assembly and destabilizing the overall structure.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The commerce clause allows Congress to deal with interstate commerce and seeks to prevent states from impairing it.
—Ford Turner Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
Just because a warrantless civil immigration arrest, governed by § 1357(a), may lead to detention or other consequences governed by §§ 1221-1231 does not mean that an injunction implicating § 1357(a)(2) is effectively an injunction impairing the operation of the covered sections.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
These compounds may block iodine transport to the thyroid, impairing thyroid function.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 4 Mar. 2026
This leads to worsening loss of movement, impairing the ability to walk, use the hands and arms, speak, chew, and swallow.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Chronic stress strains your heart, impedes immune function, interferes with digestion, even risks impairing focus and memory.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 19 Feb. 2026
Studies will examine both the therapeutic and impairing effects of cannabis, psilocybin, MDMA and alcohol.
—Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
Even a single variant can disrupt protein function by impairing subunit assembly and destabilizing the overall structure.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The commerce clause allows Congress to deal with interstate commerce and seeks to prevent states from impairing it.
—Ford Turner Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
Just because a warrantless civil immigration arrest, governed by § 1357(a), may lead to detention or other consequences governed by §§ 1221-1231 does not mean that an injunction implicating § 1357(a)(2) is effectively an injunction impairing the operation of the covered sections.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impairing
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An asteroid the size of a house exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk with the force of 440,000 tons of TNT, damaging buildings and injuring more than 1,600 people, according to NASA.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said that an airstrike hit near its Bushehr nuclear facility, killing a security guard and damaging a support building.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
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The city of Fort Worth is taking proactive measures to stop people from popping off and injuring their neighbors with stray bullets.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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Since the start of the conflict, Tehran has fired more than 5,000 missiles and drones at Gulf states, killing 27 people and injuring at least 274 others as of April 6.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Ancient lava fields can be seen as dark lunar maria marring the silvery lunar surface, which themselves are threaded with bright streaks of reflective debris strewn across the surface by violent asteroid strikes.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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The demoralizing graffiti marring the main entrance to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 360 Lenox Ave.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2026
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Autonomous systems must handle edge cases and systemic failures without compromising passenger safety.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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This means the hair boasts 80% cuticle alignment, maintains its sumptuous, silky texture after 20+ washes, and undergoes only minimal, delicate acid-washing for sanitation without compromising its integrity.—
Noel Cymone Walker,
StyleCaster,
1 Apr. 2026
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Confidence in Israel’s ability to seriously damage Iran’s nuclear program has slipped from 62% to 48%; expectations of crippling its ballistic missile arsenal have dropped from 73% to 57%.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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All three largely believe the war caused the high gas and grocery prices that are crippling the nation’s economy.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Anthropic's showdown with the Pentagon this year left OpenAI looking like the bad guy, and just this week Bloomberg reported that demand is weakening for private shares of OpenAI in the secondary market.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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But those safeguards appear to be weakening.—
Jennifer Elias,Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Impairing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impairing. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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