impinge
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/
impinge (impinges, present participle impinging; past and past participle impinged)
- (transitive, now, rare) To make a physical impact on.
- Synonyms: collide, crash, strike
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040 ↗, partition 1, page 118 ↗:
- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds {{...}
- (intransitive, figuratively) To interfere with.
- Synonyms: encroach, infringe, trespass
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.
- Synonyms: affect, limit, touch, influence, impact
- French: toucher, butter, cogner
- German: aufschlagen, aufprallen
- Spanish: chocar
- French: influencer, troubler
- German: beeinflussen
- Russian: посяга́ть
- Spanish: interferir, inmiscuirse
- French: agir sur
- German: einschneiden
- Spanish: limitar
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