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impress
has definitions from the fields of law,color,nautical,printing
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[ verb ] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
Examples "This child impressed me as unusually mature" "This behavior struck me as odd" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)When we arrive_at the events concerned in the vanished majority , they , of_course , cannot impress us as anything familiar . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` What has impressed you most on your present visit '' ? |
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[ verb ] impress positively
Examples "The young chess player impressed her audience" Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)I 'd have been more impressed if I had n't remembered that she 'd played Hedda_Gabler in her highschool dramatics course . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)`` I would say depressed , not impressed '' , I told him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
Examples "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts , and I think Mr._Jameson_Campaigne has done it well in his new book American_Might_and_Soviet_Myth . Related terms |
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[ verb ] mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
Synonyms Examples "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two channels which are impressed on the record . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (nautical) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, esp. on board a ship
Synonyms Examples "The men were shanghaied after being drugged" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law) the act of coercing someone into government service
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