impress

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”). === Pronunciation === (verb) enPR: ĭmprĕsʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ Rhymes: -ɛs (noun) enPR: ĭmʹprĕs, IPA(key): /ˈɪmpɹɛs/ Hyphenation: im‧press === 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 ==== Translations ==== === 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. ==== Translations ==== === Derived terms === === Further reading === “impress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “impress”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === Persism, Simpers, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers