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   impress

   verb

   • 1. make (someone) feel admiration and respect: "they immediately impressed the judges" Similar make an impression onhave an impact oninfluenceaffectleave a mark onmovestirrouseexciteinspiregalvanizedazzleovercomeoverwhelmoverpoweraweoverawetake someone's breath awaytake someone abackamazeastonishfeel admirationfeel respectinformal:grabstick in someone's mindOpposite disappoint
   • 2. make a mark or design on (an object) using a stamp or seal: "the company should impress the cards with a stamp"
   • ▪ apply (a mark) to something with pressure: "Andean cultures used seals to impress designs on pottery" Similar imprintprintstampmarkengravedebossembosspunchetchcarveinscribecutchisel
   • 3. fix an idea in the mind of (someone): "nobody impressed on me the need to save" Similar emphasize tostress tobring home toestablish in someone's mindfix deeply in someone's mindinstil ininculcate indrum intoknock intodrive intodin intoingrain inleave in no doubt
   • 4. apply (an electric current or potential) from an external source.

   noun

   • 1. an act of making an impression or mark: "bluish marks made by the impress of his fingers"
   • ▪ a mark made by a seal or stamp.
   • ▪ a person's characteristic quality: "his desire to put his own impress on the films he made"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘apply with pressure’): from Old French empresser, from em- ‘in’ + presser ‘to press’, influenced by Latin imprimere (see imprint). impress1 (sense 1 of the verb) dates from the mid 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. impressible adjective

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