Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make worse; to injure or damage. · To become impaired; to grow worse.
From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.
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