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  • English Word Impaction Definition An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.
  • English Word Impaint Definition To paint; to adorn with colors.
  • English Word Impair Definition To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
  • English Word Impair Definition To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • English Word Impair Definition Not fit or appropriate.
  • English Word Impair Definition Diminution; injury.
  • English Word Impaired Definition of Impair
  • English Word Impairer Definition One who, or that which, impairs.
  • English Word Impairing Definition of Impair
  • English Word Impairment Definition The state of being impaired; injury.
  • English Word Impalatable Definition Unpalatable.
  • English Word Impale Definition To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.
  • English Word Impale Definition To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround.
  • English Word Impale Definition To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention.
  • English Word Impaled Definition of Impale
  • English Word Impalement Definition The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
  • English Word Impalement Definition An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
  • English Word Impalement Definition That which hedges in; inclosure.
  • English Word Impalement Definition The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
  • English Word Impaling Definition of Impale
  • English Word Impalla Definition The pallah deer of South Africa.
  • English Word Impallid Definition To make pallid; to blanch.
  • English Word Impalm Definition To grasp with or hold in the hand.
  • English Word Impalpability Definition The quality of being impalpable.
  • English Word Impalpable Definition Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch.
  • English Word Impalpable Definition Not material; intangible; incorporeal.
  • English Word Impalpable Definition Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
  • English Word Impalpably Definition In an impalpable manner.
  • English Word Impalsy Definition To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
  • English Word Impanate Definition Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist.