appair
verbEtymology From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.
1
Obsolete To 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 […]1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes:
2
Obsolete To become impaired; to grow worse.
- I see the more that I them forbear The worse they be from year to year;1510, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909)