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apples (iou) and impair (iou)


apples (iou)



apples adjective. Austral. & NZ slang. M20.
[Pl. of APPLE noun.]
Satisfactory, all right, fine.
T. A. G. Hungerford How's it going, Wally? Everything apples?

impair (iou)



impair verb. Orig. appair; also empair. ME.
[Old French empeirier from Proto-Romance, formed as IM-1 + late Latin pejorare, from Latin pejor worse.]
verb trans. Make less effective or weaker; devalue; damage, injure. ME.
A. Burgess Being toothless did not impair one's capacity to eat army Food. Which? Corneal ulcers..can permanently impair vision.
verb intrans. Become less effective or weaker; deteriorate; suffer injury or loss. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
Southey His own Health and faculties impairing day by day.
impairer noun L16.
impairment noun the action of impairing, the fact of being impaired ME.