VERB | emotion | impress, affect, move, strike | have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
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emotion | impress | impress positively | |
cognition | impress, ingrain, instill | produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | |
contact | impress, imprint | mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | |
creation | impress, print | reproduce by printing | |
contact | impress, shanghai | take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | |
change | impress, yarn-dye | dye (fabric) before it is spun | |
NOUN | act | impress, impressment | the act of coercing someone into government service |
Sounds | ihmpreh's; ih'mpreh.s | |
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Rhymes | ABS ... yes: 78 rhymes with ehs... |
Meaning | The act of coercing someone into government service. | |
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Synonym | impressment | |
Broader | seizure | The taking possession of something by legal process |
Spanish | impresión, requisa, requisición | |
Catalan | requisa, requisició | |
Verbs | impress | take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship |
Meaning | impress positively. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
Model | The performance is likely to impress Sue | |
Example | "The young chess player impressed her audience" | |
Narrower | prepossess | make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand |
wow | impress greatly | |
Broader | affect, impress, move, strike | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
Spanish | impresionar | |
Catalan | impressionar | |
Adjectives | impressive | making a strong or vivid impression |
Meaning | produce or try to produce a vivid impression of. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
Synonyms | ingrain, instill | |
Broader | affect, impress, move, strike | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
Spanish | impresionar, marcar | |
Catalan | impressionar, marcar | |
Adjectives | impressive | producing a strong effect |
Meaning | mark or stamp with or as if with pressure. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
Example | "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" | |
Synonym | imprint | |
Entails | press | Exert pressure or force to or upon |
Narrower | emboss, boss, stamp | Raise in a relief |
stamp | To mark, or produce an imprint in or on something | |
Broader | change surface | Undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface |
Spanish | estampar, imprimir | |
Catalan | estampar, imprimir | |
Nouns | impression | the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface / surface of another |
Meaning | Reproduce by printing. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | ||
Narrower | boldface | Print in boldface |
cyclostyle | Print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | |
italicize, italicise | Print in italics | |
letter | set down or print with letters | |
offset | produce by offset printing | |
overprint, print over | Print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper | |
prove | Take a trial impression of | |
typeset, set | Set in type | |
Broader | write | mark or trace on a surface |
Spanish | imprimir |
Meaning | Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonym | shanghai | |
Category | crime, criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law |
Broader | kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch | take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom |
Nouns | impress, impressment | the act of coercing someone into government service |
Meaning | dye (fabric) before it is spun. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | yarn-dye | |
Broader | dye | color with dye |
Spanish | estampar | |
Catalan | estampar |
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