impaired

Examples of impairing

impairing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The saturation of soil with waste-water led to increasing concentrations of harmful metallic and organic substances thereby impairing the quality of ground water.
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.
Mental disorders were often co-morbid and impairing, and generally more prevalent among females.
We suggest that studying a more parsimonious case definition - impairing chronic fatigue not due to a known cause - would represent a way forward.
This would be a stable aspect of the architecture; changing it would entail impairing visual recognition abilities and changing the cognitive architecture.
Four such pieces of information can potentially become available without impairing performance.
They are often encumbered by external constraints in the form of peer pressure, poverty, and impairing social circumstances.
In normal circumstances, as singers will know, this is not advisable for reasons of vocal health, and the danger of impairing subsequent precision and clarity.
These procedures were performed as quickly as possible to avoid impairing the developmental capacity of fertilised ova and embryos.
At the simplest level, direct pharmacological effects of the substance might be performance impairing.
It is probably due to an energetic failure, which leads to a transmembrane gradient collapse, impairing glutamate transport to uptake, leading to late cell death.
For example, fatigue is a very common symptom, impairing significantly an elderly patient's quality of life, and yet traditionally receives less attention.
Smart product design can be achieved with the aid of optimization and intelligent concepts to facilitate assembly task without impairing the function of final products.
It appears to enhance our awareness of the environment, both physical and human, by the correct stimulation of our senses and a gradual bodily adaptation without impairing comfort.
It is important to appreciate that they may present rather subtly in an older patient who may have pre-existing pathology, impairing either cognitive function or mobility.
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