0 to spoil something or make it weaker so that it is less effective: --
1 to damage or weaken something so that it is less effective: --
Households and enterprises are thus prompted into accounting for environmental costs in their plans, programmes and budgets without impairing the allocative efficiency of the market.
The blood - brain barrier may become an important route for water elimination in obstructive hydrocephalus when other routes or water exit are impaired.
The cost of long-term management and maintenance of product knowledge, as product models and configuration constraints evolve, may seriously impair the advantages of configuration systems.
The main objective of the experiment reported in this paper was to investigate loss of long-term memory ability in normal and cognitively impaired elderly subjects.
One participant was visually impaired, one had a severe hearing impairment and four had mobility difficulties.
As a group, the participants were generally in poor health and many had mobility problems that impaired their ability to get around for essential activities.
Both anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic lesions impair radial-maze learning in rats.
That is, both planning and control appeared to be impaired in pointing to targets in the periphery.
