impress
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impress
- /ɪmˈpɹɛs/
- /ˈɪmpɹɛs/
Rhymes with -ɛs
Where it comes from
From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).
verb impresses · impressing · impressed
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To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably; to inspire admiration from (someone).
You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
Similar: make an impression, grab
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To make an impression; to be impressive; to arouse interest or favor.
Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
Similar: make an impression, grab, cut a figure
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To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.
We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
Similar: press
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something). He impressed his signature into the wax.
- To produce a vivid impression of (something); to convince someone of one's nature. That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
- To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to cause someone to understand and accept something. You have to impress the new vocabulary into your mind.
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To transfer or transmit.
The money was impressed into the hands of the financial ministry.
Similar: pass
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To transfer voltage onto metalwork through induced or capacitative processes.
This process will impress voltage into the metal.
Similar: pass
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To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
Similar: pressgang
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To seize or confiscate (property) by force, especially for military use.
The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
Similar: pressgang, confiscate, impound, seize, sequester
noun impresses
- The act of impressing.
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something. This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc. Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them
- A heraldic device; an impresa. It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights?
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: instill, affect, impressment, move, strike, print, imprint, shanghai, ingrain, yarn-dye, persuade, emphasize, convince, understand, inculcate, instil
Translations
Every language
verb (transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
| Español | impresionar |
|---|---|
| Português | impressionar |
| Français | impressionner |
| Deutsch | beeindrucken |
| Italiano | impressionare |
| Ελληνικά | εντυπωσιάζω entyposiázo |
| Русский | производи́ть впечатле́ние proizvodítʹ vpečatlénije, произвести́ впечатле́ние proizvestí vpečatlénije, импонировать imponirovatʹ, впечатлять vpečatljatʹ |
verb (intransitive) make an impression
| Español | impresionar |
|---|---|
| Português | impressionar |
verb produce a vivid impression of
| Português | impressionar |
|---|---|
| Русский | впечатлять vpečatljatʹ |
verb seize or confiscate (property) by force
| Italiano | confiscare, requisire |
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noun impressed image or copy
| Español | impresión |
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noun stamp or seal used to make an impression
| Русский | о́ттиск óttisk |
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title = {impress},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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