IMPRESS

impress, impressment

(noun) the act of coercing someone into government service

impress, yarn-dye

(verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun

impress, ingrain, instill

(verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; “Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us”

shanghai, impress

(verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; “The men were shanghaied after being drugged”

impress, imprint

(verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; “To make a batik, you impress a design with wax”

print, impress

(verb) reproduce by printing

affect, impress, move, strike

(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; “This child impressed me as unusually mature”; “This behavior struck me as odd”; “he was dumb-struck by the news”; “her comments struck a sour note”

impress

(verb) impress positively; “The young chess player impressed her audience”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

impress (third-person singular simple present impresses, present participle impressing, simple past and past participle impressed)

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

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.

(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

Synonyms

• (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

Noun

impress (plural impresses)

The act of impressing.

An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

A heraldic device; an impresa.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Anagrams

• Persism, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers

Source: Wiktionary

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Im*press", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Impressing.] Etym: [L. impressus, p. p. of imprimere to impress; pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and cf. Imprint.]

1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed. Shak.

2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

3. Fig.: 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. I. Watts.

4. Etym: [See Imprest, Impress, n., 5.]

Definition: To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn.

Im*press", v. i.

Definition: To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. Chaucer.

Im"press, n.; pl. Impresses (.

1. The act of impressing or making.

2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. The impresses of the insides of these shells. Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. Shak.

3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South.

4. A device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton.

5. Etym: [See Imprest, Press to force into service.]

Definition: The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.

– Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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