Impair: alternatives and connections

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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One who, or that which, impairs.

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One who, or that which, impairs.

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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Same as Deflour.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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