impairing
Reducing the effectiveness
Impairing is weakening, damaging, or diminishing something's function or quality.
The word typically applies to faculties and capabilities: Alcohol impairs judgment.
Vision can be impaired, hearing can be impaired, cognitive function can be impaired.
Driving while impaired means operating a vehicle with faculties diminished by drugs or alcohol.
Causing damage or injury
- detrimentalCausing harm or damage
- injuriousCausing physical harm
- deleteriousCausing harm or damage
- destructiveCausing severe harm
compromising · undermining · corrupting · debilitating · disabling · ruinous · devastating · sabotaging
Becoming progressively less
- reducingMaking less or smaller
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- degradingLowering in worth
- erodingGradually wearing away
sapping · attenuating · diluting · depleting · enfeebling · enervating · devitalizing · exhausting
harmful
Causing damage or injury
- detrimentalCausing harm or damage
- injuriousCausing physical harm
- deleteriousCausing harm or damage
destructive · compromising · undermining · corrupting · debilitating · disabling · ruinous · devastating · sabotaging · hindering
diminishing
Becoming progressively less
eroding · sapping · attenuating · diluting · depleting · enfeebling · enervating · devitalizing · exhausting · draining
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- deterioratingdecaying, decomposing, degrading, rotting, eroding
- restrainingconstraining, restricting, limiting, confining, curbing
impairingimproving
Becoming more capable
enhancing · bettering · ameliorating · upgrading · amending
impairingstrengthening
Increasing power or solidity
fortifying · reinforcing · bolstering · empowering · invigorating
impairingenhancing
Increasing quality or value
improving · strengthening · boosting · augmenting · amplifying
repair, repaired, repairing, impair, repairs, impaired, impairment, disrepair, unimpaired