impairとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, variant of empirier (“to worsen”), from Vulgar Latin *impēiōrō, from im- + Late Latin pēiōrō (“to make worse”), from peior (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛə/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)

動詞

impair (三人称単数 現在形 impairs, 現在分詞 impairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 impaired)

1. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

同意語

• blunt, diminish, hurt, lessen, mar, reduce, weaken, worsen

派生語

• impairment

形容詞

impair (comparative more impair, superlative most impair)

1. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.

• c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 4, scene 5]:

  giues he not till iudgement guide his bounty,
  Nor dignifies an impaire thought with breath:

Further reading

• impair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impair in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• impair at OneLook Dictionary Search