impair
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make worse or less effective
His vision was impaired
Types & categories
- damage hypernym
Related & opposite
- impairment derivation
- impairer derivation
Sense 2 verb
make imperfect
nothing marred her beauty
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- impairment derivation
- defloration derivation
- spoil derivation
- blemish derivation
- impairer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | impairment |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | impairer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | damage |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impairment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | defloration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spoil |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blemish |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impairer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | damage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | defile |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | blemish |