impair
Example Sentences
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What happens if you aren’t impaired, but the car decides you are?
A hidden consequence of disasters, distinct from the traumas afflicting each person, was a shredding of “social life that damages the bonds attaching people together and impairs a prevailing sense of communality,” he wrote.
A neo-traditionalist and pied piper for the New York downtown set, Keith and his nine lives most recently turned to Instagram after a stroke impaired his ability to speak.
From Los Angeles Times
“If this asset and/or others are larger and meaningfully impair our cash return assumptions, then there may be more fuel for the bear case.”
Our ability to engage in reality testing could be greatly impaired, if not lost altogether.
From Salon
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