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Definition of impairing : of Impair

Synonyms:

enfeebling, invalidating, deadening, tampering, disarming, hindering, benumbing, neutralizing, crippling, weakening, abrogating, handicapping, botching, cramping, undermining, scotching, hampering, vitiating, incapacitating, prostrating, hamstringing, sapping, hobbling, anesthetizing, dulling, disabling, screwing up, stunning, paralyzing, laming, stupefying

restricting, crimping, bunging, interrupting, fouling, frustrating, dragging, burdening, choking, snarling, entangling, plugging, curbing, catching, resisting, tangling, checking, staying, thwarting, miring, damming, jamming, braking, snagging, complicating, clogging, constraining, restraining, encumbering, bottlenecking, entrapping, obstructing, opposing, inhibiting, impeding, delaying, deterring, detaining, baffling, countering, barring, congesting, fettering, stopping, blocking, constipating

Usage examples:

• If young Badman feared not the damnation of his soul, do you think that the consideration of impairing of his body would have deterred him therefrom? - "The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3", John Bunyan.
• We often see that one strong will can dominate a weaker one, without in the least impairing its freedom. - "Love's Final Victory", Horatio.
• Maryland, to carry on war, and that it was not prohibited by the spirit or letter of the constitution, though it was admitted to be a law impairing the obligation of contracts, and notwithstanding the objection that it deprived many persons of their property without compensation and without due process of law. - "Monopolies and the People", D. C. Cloud.