Impress

/ɪmˈpɹɛs/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
2. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
3. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
4. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
6. (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
7. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
8. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

Example Sentences

You impressed me with your command of Urdu.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much

Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.

That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.

We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

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• impresses
• impressing
• impressed

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