impress
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
impress (impresses, present participle impressing; past and past participle impressed)
- (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
- (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
- Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
- (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
- (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- (figurative) 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.
- (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
- The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
- (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
- The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
- the second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners
- (transitive: affect strongly and often favourably) make an impression on
- (intransitive: make an impression, be impressive) cut a figure
- (produce a vivid impression of)
- (mark or stamp (something) using pressure) imprint, print, stamp
- (compel (someone) to serve in a military force): pressgang
- (seize or confiscate (property) by force): confiscate, impound, seize, sequester
- French: impressionner
- German: beeindrucken
- Italian: impressionare
- Portuguese: impressionar
- Russian: производи́ть впечатле́ние
- Spanish: impresionar
- Portuguese: impressionar
- Spanish: impresionar (pronominal)
- Portuguese: impressionar
- Russian: впечатлять
- Italian: confiscare, requisire
impress (plural impresses)
- The act of impressing.
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
- 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton 2005, p. 1330:
- We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:
- Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- A heraldic device; an impresa.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- To describe […] emblazon'd Shields, / Impreses quaint.
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- Why such impress of shipwrights?
- Spanish: impresión
- Russian: о́ттиск
- Spanish: impresión
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