Definition of impressa
1. impress [ v ] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
Examples:
"This child impressed me as unusually mature"
"This behavior struck me as odd"
(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)
When we arrive_at the events concerned in the vanished majority , they , of_course , cannot impress us as anything familiar .
(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)
`` What has impressed you most on your present visit '' ?
Synonyms strike impress move affect Related Terms surprise disturb touch move sweep_away hit_home awaken pierce sadden jar zap infect smite strike_dumb cloud engrave hit motivate feel2. impress [ v ] impress positively
Examples:
"The young chess player impressed her audience"
(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)
I 'd have been more impressed if I had n't remembered that she 'd played Hedda_Gabler in her highschool dramatics course .
(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)
`` I would say depressed , not impressed '' , I told him .
Synonyms impress Related Terms affect wow prepossess3. impress [ v ] produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
Examples:
"Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)
I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts , and I think Mr._Jameson_Campaigne has done it well in his new book American_Might_and_Soviet_Myth .
Synonyms impress instill ingrain Related Terms affect inculcation4. impress [ v ] mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
Examples:
"To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
(The Christian Science Monitor,...)
These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two channels which are impressed on the record .
Synonyms impress imprint Related Terms change_surface stamp emboss press5. impress [ v ] take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, esp. on board a ship
Examples:
"The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
6. impress [ v ] dye (fabric) before it is spun
Synonyms yarn-dye impress Related Terms dye7. impress [ v ] reproduce by printing
Synonyms impress print Related Terms write italicize boldface prove letter typeset cyclostyle overprint offset multigraph print printing printer8. impress [ n ] the act of coercing someone into government service
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