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English noun: impress | |||
| 1. | impress (act) the act of coercing someone into government service | ||
| Synonyms | impressment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | seizure | ||
English verb: impress | |||
| 1. | impress (emotion) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | ||
| Samples | This child impressed me as unusually mature. This behavior struck me as odd. | ||
| Examples | The bad news will impress him, The good news will impress her | ||
| Synonyms | affect, move, strike | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alienate, awaken, cloud, disturb, engrave, hit home, impress, impress, infect, ingrain, instill, jar, move, pierce, sadden, smite, stir, strike a chord, strike a note, strike dumb, strike home, surprise, sweep away, sweep off, touch, trouble, upset, zap | ||
| Cause | experience, feel | ||
| Verb group | actuate, come to, hit, incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel, strike | ||
| 2. | impress (emotion) impress positively | ||
| Samples | The young chess player impressed her audience. | ||
| Examples | The performance is likely to impress Sue | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affect, impress, move, strike | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | prepossess, wow | ||
| 3. | impress (cognition) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | ||
| Samples | Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us. | ||
| Synonyms | ingrain, instill | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affect, impress, move, strike | ||
| 4. | impress (contact) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | ||
| Samples | To make a batik, you impress a design with wax. | ||
| Synonyms | imprint | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change surface | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | boss, emboss, stamp, stamp | ||
| Entail | press | ||
| 5. | impress (creation) reproduce by printing | ||
| Synonyms | |||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | write | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | boldface, cyclostyle, italicise, italicize, letter, offset, overprint, print over, prove, set, typeset | ||
| 6. | impress (contact) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | ||
| Samples | The men were shanghaied after being drugged. | ||
| Synonyms | shanghai | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch | ||
| Domain category | crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense | ||
| 7. | impress (change) dye (fabric) before it is spun | ||
| Synonyms | yarn-dye | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dye | ||
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