impairs
Reduces in quality
Impairs is the third-person singular form of impair, meaning to weaken, damage, or diminish the quality or function of something.
The word typically applies to faculties, abilities, or systems: Alcohol impairs judgment.
Vision can be impaired, hearing can be impaired, and cognitive function can be impaired by illness or injury.
The participle impaired often appears in compounds: hearing-impaired, visually impaired.
To make weak
- enfeebleMake feeble or frail
- sapPlant circulatory fluid
- diminishTo make smaller
- degradeLower in standing
compromise · enervate · exhaust · devitalize · deplete · undermine · attenuate · erode
Obstruct or clothes basket
- inhibitTo restrain or hinder
- impedeTo obstruct movement
- obstructBlock or hinder passage
- interfereObstruct or meddle uninvited
disrupt · compromise · undermine · handicap · thwart · curtail · stymie · encumber
Ability to see
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- memoryMind's retention capacity
coordination · mobility · speech · breathing · concentration · performance · ability · capacity
Cause drunkenness or euphoria
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- sedativesDrugs that calm
depressants · narcotics · opioids · cannabis · breathalyzer · sobriety · inebriation · DUI
debilitate
To make weak
degrade · compromise · enervate · exhaust · devitalize · deplete · undermine · attenuate · erode · lessen
hamper
Obstruct or clothes basket
interfere · disrupt · compromise · undermine · handicap · thwart · curtail · stymie · encumber · frustrate
vision
Ability to see
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
memory · coordination · mobility · speech · breathing · concentration · performance · ability · capacity · function
intoxicate
Cause drunkenness or euphoria
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
sedatives · depressants · narcotics · opioids · cannabis · breathalyzer · sobriety · inebriation · DUI · intoxication
- cognitive impairmentDiminished intellectual function
- hearing impairedReduced auditory function
- visually impairedHaving diminished sight
- vision impairedReduced ability to see
- visual impairmentUncorrectable seeing deficit
- impaired drivingOperating vehicle while intoxicated