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Definition of Impress
1. Verb. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. "The good news will impress her"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
Specialized synonyms: Infect, Surprise, Ingrain, Instill, Awaken, Engrave, Strike Dumb, Zap, Jar, Hit Home, Strike A Chord, Strike A Note, Strike Home, Smite, Cloud, Pierce, Sweep Away, Sweep Off, Disturb, Trouble, Upset, Stir, Touch, Move, Sadden, Alienate
Related verbs: Actuate, Incite, Motivate, Move, Prompt, Propel, Come To, Hit, Strike
Causes: Experience, Feel
Derivative terms: Affect, Affective, Impressible, Impressive, Impressive
2. Noun. The act of coercing someone into government service.
3. Verb. Impress positively. "The performance is likely to impress Sue"; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
Specialized synonyms: Prepossess, Wow
Derivative terms: Impressive
4. Verb. Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of. "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
Generic synonyms: Affect, Move, Strike
Derivative terms: Impressive, Instilling
5. Verb. Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure. "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
Generic synonyms: Change Surface
Specialized synonyms: Stamp, Boss, Emboss, Stamp
Entails: Press
Derivative terms: Impression, Imprint
6. Verb. Reproduce by printing.
Generic synonyms: Write
Specialized synonyms: Letter, Set, Typeset, Prove, Offset, Overprint, Print Over, Cyclostyle, Boldface, Italicise, Italicize
Derivative terms: Print, Printer, Printer, Printer, Printing
7. Verb. Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship. "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
Category relationships: Crime, Criminal Offence, Criminal Offense, Law-breaking, Offence, Offense
Generic synonyms: Abduct, Kidnap, Nobble, Snatch
Derivative terms: Impressment, Shanghaier
8. Verb. Dye (fabric) before it is spun.
Definition of Impress
1. v. t. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
2. v. i. To be impressed; to rest.
3. n. The act of impressing or making.
Definition of Impress
1. Verb. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something) ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive ¹
7. Noun. The act of impressing ¹
8. Noun. An impression, and impressed image or copy of something ¹
9. Noun. A stamp or seal used to make an impression ¹
10. Noun. An impression on the mind, imagination etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impress
1. to affect strongly [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Impress
1. 1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). "His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed." (Shak) 2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something). 3. To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. "Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them." (I. Watts) 4. [See Imprest, Impress, 5] To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. "The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners." (Evelyn) Origin: L. Impressus, p. P. Of imprimere to impress; pref. Im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and cf. Imprint. To be impressed; to rest. "Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress." (Chaucer) 1. The act of impressing or making. 2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. "The impresses of the insides of these shells." (Woodward) "This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice." (Shak) 3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. 4. A device. See Impresa. "To describe . . . Emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint." (Milton) 5. [See Imprest, Press to force into service] 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?" (Shak) Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)