Usually means: Reduces ability, function, or effectiveness.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. impairs: Merriam-Webster
  2. impairs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. impairs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Impairs, impairs: Wordnik
  5. impairs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. impairs: Wiktionary
  7. impairs: Dictionary.com
  8. impairs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. impairs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impairs: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. impairs: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impairs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See impair as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (impair)

verb:  (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of impairing or deteriorating.
noun:  (obsolete) The fact of being impaired or having grown worse.
noun:  (obsolete) An impairment or deterioration.
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