Borrowed from Latin impingō.

• IPA: /ɪmˈpɪnd͡ʒ/

impinge (impinges, present participle impinging; simple past and past participle impinged)

1. (intransitive, rarely, transitive) To make a physical impact on.

   Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.

   Synonyms: collide, crash, strike

   • 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗, partition 1, page 118 ↗:

     The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […]

2. (intransitive, rarely, transitive, figuratively) To interfere with.

   Synonyms: encroach, infringe, trespass

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.

   Synonyms: affect, limit, touch, influence, impact

   Near-synonym: infringe

• 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