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Arraign vs Impair - What's the difference?

arraign | impair | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between arraign and impair

is that arraign is to officially charge someone in a court of law while impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.

As a noun arraign

is arraignment.

As an adjective impair is

not fit or appropriate.

arraign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  • * Dryden
    • They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • arraignment
    • the clerk of the arraigns
    (Blackstone)
    (Macaulay)

    References

    impair

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (qualifier)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  • (archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

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