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impair
verb as in harm, hinder
Example Sentences
Providence St. Joseph Hospital entered an agreement Monday to comply with the California Emergency Services Law — which requires all hospitals to provide abortions if the failure to do so would place the patient’s health in serious jeopardy, seriously impair the patient’s bodily functions or result in serious dysfunction of any organ.
Sugar and inflammation impair your microbiome's ability to digest food and regulate metabolism.
Within the first year of launching its heavily anticipated Cybertruck, Telsa announced a fifth recall for the electric vehicle, this time involving a delay in the rearview camera display that can impair a driver’s visibility and increase the risk of collision.
Research has further indicated that harsh and unpredictable environments, like those characterized by extreme heat, drought or storms, can impair social relationships and decision-making among adolescents, Clayton said.
Serial incoherence, lack of basic curiosity, pathological dishonesty, a tendency toward sadistic verbal abuses of many different kinds—all these things can also plainly be evaluated through the prism of whether they might impair someone from performing the job of president effectively.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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