Definitions for impress

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impress im·press

Spelling: [verb im-pres; noun im-pres]

IPA: /verb ɪmˈprɛs; noun ˈɪm prɛs/

Impress is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in impress (eimprss).

Definitions for impress

noun

1. the act of impressing.
2. a mark made by or as by pressure; stamp; imprint.
3. a distinctive character or effect imparted:
4. impressment.

verb (used with object)

1. to affect deeply or strongly in mind or feelings; influence in opinion:
2. to fix deeply or firmly on the mind or memory, as ideas or facts:
3. to urge, as something to be remembered or done:
4. to press (a thing) into or on something.
5. to impose a particular characteristic or quality upon (something):
6. to produce (a mark, figure, etc.) by pressure; stamp; imprint:
7. to apply with pressure, so as to leave a mark.
8. to subject to or mark by pressure with something.
9. to furnish with a mark, figure, etc., by or as if by stamping.
10. Electricity. to produce (a voltage) or cause (a voltage) to appear or be produced on a conductor, circuit, etc.
11. to press or force into public service, as sailors.
12. to seize or take for public use.
13. to take or persuade into service by forceful arguments:

verb (used without object)

1. to create a favorable impression; draw attention to oneself:

Origin of impress

1325-75; Middle English Latin impressus past participle of imprimere to press into or upon, impress, equivalent to im- im-¹ + pre

Examples for impress

Since he doesn't have to impress me, it's clearly a little show for Alma.

“He spent most of his time trying to impress me,” Campbell tells Piazza about a meeting with Ryan.

These performances, I gather, are to impress upon you that he is a free man and your equal.

Hannigan pretended to be a basketball pro in order to impress a hot guy she had a crush on—only she had never played basketball.

The Eastern end of the Cathedral does not impress the beholder.

[Your superiors] become the people you most want to impress—and this is how you do it.

Boys were flogged when criminals were hanged, to impress the awful warning on them.

She said this calmly and quietly, as though to impress her informant and reassure him.

A new reality series spotlights the extent people will go to impress a crush—from pretending to be deaf to committing theft.

Boys were flogged at boundaries, to impress the boundaries on their memory.