IMPRESS
Definition:
- [noun] the act of coercing someone into government service
Synonyms: ment
- [verb] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
Synonyms: affect, move, strike
- [verb] impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
- [verb] produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
Synonyms: ingrain, instill
- [verb] mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
Synonyms: imprint
- [verb] reproduce by printing
Synonyms: print
- [verb] take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
Synonyms: shanghai
- [verb] dye (fabric) before it is spun
Synonyms: yarn-dye
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Related Words:
- infect
- surprise
- impress, ingrain, instill
- awaken
- engrave
- strike dumb
- zap
- jar
- hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note
- smite
- cloud
- pierce
- impress
- sweep away, sweep off
- disturb, upset, trouble
- touch, stir
- move
- sadden
- prepossess
- wow
- stamp
- emboss, boss, stamp
- letter
- typeset
- prove
- offset
- multigraph
- overprint, print over
- cyclostyle
- boldface
- italicize, italicise
