Impair vs Accuse - What's the difference?
impair | accuse | Related terms |
To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
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To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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In transitive terms the difference between impair and accuse
is that impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on while accuse is to charge with having committed a crime or offence.In obsolete terms the difference between impair and accuse
is that impair is not fit or appropriate while accuse is an accusation.As an adjective impair
is not fit or appropriate.As a noun accuse is
an accusation.impair
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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