Impacted vs Impaired - What's the difference?
impacted | impaired |
(impact)
The striking of one body against another; collision.
The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
A significant or strong influence; an effect.
To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
(proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an on.
To collide or strike.
Rendered less effective
inebriated, drunk.
(impair)
As verbs the difference between impacted and impaired
is that impacted is (impact) while impaired is (impair).As an adjective impaired is
rendered less effective.As a noun impaired is
a criminal charge for impaired driving.impacted
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Verb
(head)impact
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Noun
(en noun)- The hatchet cut the wood on impact .
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact , which caused numbness in his leg.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary. * The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above) * There are English speakers who are so ). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect'' and the verb sense with ''affect , which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)Derived terms
* impactful * impactive * impact statement * Western impactVerb
(en verb)- If fecal incontinence is caused by impacted stool in the rectum, the impaction must be removed.
- ''I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
Usage notes
Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact'', meaning "to influence; to affect; to have an impact on" or "to collide or strike". Although most .Derived terms
* impactorimpaired
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Adjective
(head)- His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.