appairEtymologyFrom Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.appair means to make worse; to injure or damage. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.verbTo make worse; to injure or damage.“The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded […]”To become impaired; to grow worse.“I see the more that I them forbear The worse they be from year to year;”