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English
Adjective
impaired
- Rendered less effective.
His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.
- inebriated, drunk.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Collocations
with nouns
- impaired vision
- impaired hearing
- impaired mobility
- impaired healing
- impaired fertility
- impaired health
- impaired judgment
- impaired cognition
- impaired consciousness
- impaired memory
- impaired concentration
- impaired function
- impaired performance
- impaired ability
- impaired capacity
- impaired person
- impaired child
- impaired adult
with adverbs
- visually impaired
- physically impaired
- mentally impaired
- emotionally impaired
- cognitively impaired
Translations
rendered less effective
- Bulgarian: увреден (bg) (uvreden)
- Dutch: verzwakt (nl), verminderd (nl), beschadigd (nl), verstoord (nl)
- Finnish: heikentynyt, alentunut (fi)
- French: détérioré (fr), affaibli (fr), diminué (fr)
- German: beeinträchtigt (de), behindert (de), gestört (de), gemindert (de), geschädigt (de), verschlimmert (de)
- Italian: diminuito (it)
- Japanese: 不自由な (ja) (fujiyū na)
- Latin: accīsus
- Maori: waimaero
- Romanian: înrautățit m or n, slăbit (ro) m or n, diminuat m or n
- Spanish: alterado (es), estropeado (es), aminorado (es)
- Swedish: nedsatt (sv), försämrad (sv)
- Turkish: bozuk (tr), güçsüz (tr), zayıf (tr)
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Verb
impaired
- simple past and past participle of impair
Noun
impaired (plural impaireds)
- A criminal charge for driving a vehicle while impaired.
- The cop gave me an impaired.