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impress

//ɪmˈpɹɛs//

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for impress

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Forms

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
impress
past (v2)
impressed
past participle (v3)
impressed
present participle
impressing
3rd person singular
impresses

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
impresses

Definitions

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

    • You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
    • Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
  2. 2.To make an impression, to be impressive.

    • Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
  3. 3.To produce a vivid impression of (something).

    • That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
  4. 4.To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

    • We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

  2. 2.An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

  3. 3.The act of impressing.

  4. 4.An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

    • This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3079

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Related words

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.

Proto-Italic *pres-

Latin premō

Latin imprimō

Latin impressusder.

Middle English impressen

English impress

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