impairing

The word “impairing” has 3 syllables: im-pair-ing

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈpeə.rɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for impairing?

In the thesaurus, “impairing” has 6 synonyms and 15 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impairing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impairing

  • compromising
  • crippling
  • damaging
  • injuring
  • marring
  • weakening

Antonyms for impairing

  • curing
  • fixing
  • healing
  • helping
  • mending
  • patching
  • rebuilding
  • reconditioning
  • reconstructing
  • rectifying
  • rehabilitating
  • remedying
  • renovating
  • repairing
  • revamping

Meanings of impairing

  • verb
    1. To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
    2. To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • noun
    1. Impairment.

Example Sentences

  • The constant stress is impairing her ability to focus.
  • Smoking is impairing his lung capacity over time.
  • The harsh conditions are impairing the growth of the plants.
  • Lack of sleep is impairing his cognitive functions.
  • Poor nutrition is impairing her overall health.

On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impairing, such as: compromising, crippling, curing, damaging, fixing, healing, helping.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abasing

  • abashing
  • affronting
  • bad-mouthing
  • bastardizing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • blemishing
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • crying down
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirtying
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discrediting
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • downgrading
  • embarrassing
  • execrating
  • fazing
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • fouling
  • harming
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • insulting
  • lessening
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lowering
  • maligning
  • marring
  • minimizing
  • mortifying
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reprobating
  • ridiculing
  • ruining
  • shaming
  • sinking
  • slandering
  • smirching
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • subverting
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • vitiating
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wrecking
  • writing off

banging up

damaging

  • abusing
  • adverse
  • afflicting
  • aggrieving
  • annihilating
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • banging up
  • bashing
  • battering
  • blemishing
  • blighting
  • bloodying
  • blowing out
  • botching
  • breaking
  • bruising
  • clobbering
  • compromising
  • contagious
  • contusing
  • crabbing
  • creasing
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dangerous
  • dashing
  • deadly
  • decimating
  • defacing
  • deleterious
  • demolishing
  • denting
  • desolating
  • destroying
  • destructive
  • deteriorating
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • dinging
  • dinting
  • disabling
  • disadvantageous
  • disfiguring
  • doing in
  • endamaging
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • eroding
  • evil
  • fatal
  • flawing
  • gashing
  • goring
  • grazing
  • hamstringing
  • harmful
  • harming
  • hazardous
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • ill
  • impairing
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lacerating
  • laming
  • laying up
  • lethal
  • maiming
  • malignant
  • maltreating
  • mangling
  • marring
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • mutilating
  • nasty
  • nicking
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • pulverizing
  • queering
  • razing
  • risky
  • ruining
  • ruinous
  • scalding
  • scarring
  • scathing
  • scourging
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • shattering
  • sinister
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • straining
  • tarnishing
  • tearing
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undermining
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unwholesome
  • venomous
  • vitiating
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wiping out
  • wounding
  • wrecking

sabotaging

  • alienated
  • annihilating
  • checking
  • curbing
  • damaging
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • disaffected
  • foiling
  • fractious
  • frustrating
  • harming
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recalcitrant
  • restless
  • restraining
  • ruining
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • thwarting
  • turbulent
  • unruly
  • warring
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wrecking

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