What's the difference between impair and wisdom?

Impair


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
  • (v. t.) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • (a.) Not fit or appropriate.
  • (n.) Diminution; injury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) The CHI patients were impaired overall on the FTE but not the CTE.
  • (4) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (5) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
  • (6) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (7) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (8) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
  • (9) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
  • (10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (11) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
  • (12) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (13) ACTH 4-10 appeared to slightly impair selective attention as indicated by AEP responses.
  • (14) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
  • (15) Only the aged treatment group demonstrated significantly impaired performance.
  • (16) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (17) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
  • (18) Our results clearly indicate impaired carbohydrate metabolism in potassium-depleted rats.
  • (19) One subject had developed renal failure, while the other two continued to function at a high level with no evidence of cognitive decline or psychiatric or neurologic impairment.
  • (20) The subscales Depression, Inactivity and Physical Impairment could not be identified as a factor.

Wisdom


Definition:

  • (a.) The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.
  • (a.) The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (2) He confronted the conventional wisdom that time is on our side and the status quo is working in our favour.
  • (3) If we accept that al-Qaida continues to pose a deadly threat to the UK, and if we know that it is capable of changing the locations of its bases and modifying its attack plans, we must accept that we have a duty to question the wisdom of prioritising, in terms of government spending on counter-terrorism, the deployment of our forces to Afghanistan.
  • (4) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
  • (5) Still, the conventional wisdom among Republican political operatives in Washington right now is that the tightrope Paul is walking probably won’t lead to the White House.
  • (6) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
  • (7) Earlier this year the Observer named Cummings and De Zoete as being involved with the controversial Twitter feed @Toryeducation which insults opponents of Gove's reforms or anyone who chooses to question their wisdom.
  • (8) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
  • (9) The results indicate that neither penicillin nor tinidazole have more effect on postoperative complications following operative extraction of wisdom teeth, than placebo tablets.
  • (10) This dilemma is at the heart of many people's anguished indecision over the wisdom of our action in Iraq.
  • (11) The Panglossian wisdom is that the web allows access to new sources of information and blogs, tweeters and online journals will replace the old newsrooms.
  • (12) Six hundred (600) out-patients, following surgical removal of an impacted lower wisdom tooth, were divided into three groups and randomly given either Fenbufen (500 mg capsules), ASA (750 mg capsules), or placebo.
  • (13) Far from enhancing security, the wisdom in Washington today is that these practises endangered it .
  • (14) Britain's most senior prosecutor has questioned whether heavy sentences given to last summer's rioters worked as an effective deterrence, challenging the received wisdom from senior judges and politicians.
  • (15) Those who viewed supervision as their right and would seek their managers out to ensure they were given time appeared to fare best – but it was acknowledged that this approach requires confidence, often gained through experience and practice wisdom.
  • (16) People are living longer, healthier lives, so it is right that our courts are able to benefit from the wisdom and experience that older people can offer.” Jane Ashcroft, chief executive of older people’s charity Anchor, said: “Older people already contribute a great deal to society and represent an integral part of any local community.
  • (17) Discussions are still active inside the cabinet on the wisdom of changing strike laws to introduce a turn-out threshold for ballots before a dispute can be deemed lawful.
  • (18) Yet the stream of refugees flooding across the border from Syria into Turkey shows the wisdom of introducing visa free travel between the two countries last year, said Knaus.
  • (19) Diplomatic tensions also intensified with Bahrain recalling its ambassador to Tehran, following the Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar's warning on Monday that Bahrain's rulers and the Gulf states who have sent troops to the kingdom needed to act with "wisdom and caution".
  • (20) He brooks no dissent or opposition and muzzles media outlets that dare question the wisdom of his rule.