impress
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: impresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impressed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: impresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much
gloss: To make an impression, to be impressive.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
gloss: To produce a vivid impression of (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
gloss: To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
gloss: To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
pos: verb
gloss: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.
gloss: To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
gloss: To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
the second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners
gloss: The act of impressing.
pos: noun
gloss: An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
pos: noun
examples: This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]
gloss: A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
pos: noun
gloss: An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
pos: noun
examples: Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]
gloss: Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
pos: noun
examples: we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them
As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.
gloss: A heraldic device; an impresa.
pos: noun
examples: 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
To describe […] emblazon'd Shields, / Impreses quaint.
gloss: The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
pos: noun
examples: Why such impress of shipwrights?
Synonyms: make an impression on
confiscate
impound
seize
sequester
Derived words: impressable
impressed
impresser
impressible
impression
impressive
impressively
impressment
impresstaurant
overimpress
reimpress
underimpress
unimpress
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