noun. A mark or indentation made by pressure; the figure or image of anything imparted by pressure, or as if by pressure; stamp; impression; hence, any distinguishing form or character.

noun. Semblance; appearance.

To compel to enter into public service, as seamen; take into service by compulsion, as nurses during an epidemic.

To seize; take for public use: as, to impress provisions.

noun. Impressment.

To press upon or against; stamp in; mark by pressure; make an impression upon.

Hence To affect forcibly, as the mind or some one of its faculties; produce a mental effect upon: as, to impress the memory or imagination; the matter impressed him favorably.

To produce or fix by pressure, or as if by pressure; make an impression of; imprint, literally or figuratively: as, to impress figures on coins or plate; to impress an image on the memory.

Hence To stamp deeply on the mind; fix by inculcation.

To be stamped or impressed; fix itself.

noun. See imprese.

In electricity, to apply electromotive force to (a circuit) from some outside source or to create difference of potential in (a conductor).

noun. The act of impressing or making.

noun. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.

noun. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

noun. A device. See Impresa.

noun. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

noun. a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.

noun. a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.

transitive verb. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

transitive verb. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

transitive verb. To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

transitive verb. To take by force for public service.

intransitive verb. To be impressed; to rest.

verb. To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably

verb. To make an impression, to be impressive.

verb. To produce a vivid impression of (something)

verb. To mark or stamp (something) using pressure

verb. To compel (someone) to serve in a military force

verb. To seize or confiscate (property) by force

noun. The act of impressing

noun. An impression, and impressed image or copy of something

noun. A stamp or seal used to make an impression

noun. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

verb. dye (fabric) before it is spun

verb. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

verb. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

verb. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

verb. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

verb. impress positively

noun. the act of coercing someone into government service

verb. reproduce by printing

"We do endeavor, it is true, by all the powers we possess, to impress upon the mind the great importance of a good education; and not only to _impress_ it upon the mind, but to assist the mind to act, that it may obtain it."

impressed forces  

impressed  impression  impressive  impressively  

abduct  affect  dye  kidnap  move  

alienate  awaken  cloud  disturb  engrave  

Bess  Es  Etess  Fs  Hess  

embodiment  impression  imprint  indication  indicative  

Ditto copy  Levy  Photostat  Xerox  Xerox copy  

impresa  

impressed  impresses  impressing  impressively