| NOUN | act | impress, impressment | the act of coercing someone into government service |
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| VERB | emotion | impress, affect, move, strike | have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Verbs | impress | take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship |
| Meaning | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The bad news will impress him; The good news will impress her | |
| Example | "This child impressed me as unusually mature" | |
| Synonyms | affect, move, strike | |
| Cause to | feel, experience | Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind |
| Narrower | alienate | Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated |
| awaken | make aware / aware | |
| cloud | make gloomy or depressed | |
| disturb, upset, trouble | Move deeply | |
| engrave | impress or affect deeply | |
| hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note | refer to or be relevant or familiar / familiar to | |
| impress, ingrain, instill | produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | |
| impress | impress positively | |
| infect | affect in a contagious way | |
| jar | affect in a disagreeable way | |
| move | Arouse sympathy or compassion in | |
| pierce | Move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | |
| sadden | make unhappy | |
| smite | affect suddenly with deep feeling | |
| strike dumb | Render speechless, as by surprising or shocking | |
| surprise | Cause to be surprised | |
| sweep away, sweep off | overwhelm emotionally | |
| touch, stir | affect emotionally | |
| zap | strike suddenly and with force | |
| Similar to | hit, strike, come to | Cause to experience suddenly |
| motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite | Give an incentive for action / action | |
| Catalan | afectar | |
| Spanish | afectar | |
| Adjectives | impressible | easily impressed or influenced |
| impressive | making a strong or vivid impression | |
| impressive | producing a strong effect | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Catalan | impressionar, marcar | |
| Spanish | impresionar, 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 |
| Catalan | imprimir | |
| Spanish | 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, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, 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 |