'Impress' definitions:
Definition of 'impress'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress, impressment]
verb
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike]
verb
Impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
verb
Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn: impress, ingrain, instill]
verb
Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" [syn: impress, imprint]
verb
Reproduce by printing [syn: print, impress]
verb
Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged" [syn: shanghai, impress]
verb
Dye (fabric) before it is spun [syn: impress, yarn-dye]
Definition of 'Impress'
From: GCIDE
- Impress \Im*press"\, v. i. To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Impress'
From: GCIDE
- Impress \Im"press\, n.; pl. Impresses.
- 1. The act of impressing or making. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The impresses of the insides of these shells. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A device. See Impresa. --Cussans. [1913 Webster]
- To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. [See Imprest, Press to force into service.] The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. [1913 Webster]
- Why such impress of shipwrights? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Impress'
From: GCIDE
- Impress \Im*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Impressing.] [L. impressus, p. p. of imprimere to impress; pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and cf. Imprint.]
- 1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). [1913 Webster]
- His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something). [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. [1913 Webster]
- Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [See Imprest, Impress, n., 5.] To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. [1913 Webster]
- The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'impress'
From: GCIDE
- Impresa \Im*pre"sa\ ([-e]m*pr[=a]"s[.a]), n. [It. See Emprise, and cf. Impress, n., 4.] (Her.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like. [Written also imprese and impress.] [1913 Webster]
- My impresa to your lordship; a swain Flying to a laurel for shelter. --J. Webster. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'impress'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abduce,
- abduct,
- affect,
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- annex,
- aquatint,
- aroma,
- arrest the thoughts,
- attach,
- attribute,
- autolithograph,
- backlash,
- backwash,
- badge,
- beat into,
- bed,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- block,
- block print,
- blotch,
- boss,
- brainwash,
- brand,
- bring home to,
- bring into play,
- bring out,
- bump,
- cachet,
- call up,
- carry,
- carry away,
- carry off,
- cast,
- catch the thoughts,
- catechize,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- character,
- characteristic,
- check,
- check off,
- chromolithograph,
- cicatrize,
- clout,
- collectivize,
- colophon,
- color print,
- come home to,
- commandeer,
- communalize,
- communize,
- concavity,
- condition,
- configuration,
- confirm,
- confiscate,
- conscript,
- contact print,
- convert to use,
- convexity,
- copperplate,
- copperplate print,
- crayon engraving,
- crimp,
- cut,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dapple,
- dash,
- deep-dye,
- define,
- delimit,
- demarcate,
- dent,
- depress,
- detach,
- detach for service,
- differentia,
- differential,
- dimple,
- dint,
- discolor,
- distinctive feature,
- distrain,
- Ditto copy,
- dot,
- draft,
- drive,
- earmark,
- electrify,
- embed,
- emboss,
- embossment,
- emphasize,
- engraft,
- engrave,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- enlargement,
- enlist,
- enlist into service,
- enroll,
- enthuse,
- entrench,
- establish,
- etch,
- etching,
- excite,
- excrescence,
- expropriate,
- fall back upon,
- feature,
- figure,
- fingerprint,
- fix,
- flavor,
- fleck,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- force,
- fossil footprint,
- found,
- freckle,
- furrow,
- galvanize,
- garnish,
- gash,
- get,
- get out,
- gouge,
- grab,
- graphotype,
- grave,
- ground,
- gust,
- hallmark,
- hammer,
- hatch,
- have recourse to,
- hectograph,
- hectograph copy,
- hit,
- hit the mark,
- hold for ransom,
- honeycomb,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- imbue,
- impact,
- implant,
- impound,
- impregnate,
- impress forcibly,
- impression,
- imprint,
- inculcate,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- indenture,
- index,
- individualism,
- indoctrinate,
- induct,
- infix,
- influence,
- infuse,
- ingrain,
- inoculate,
- inscribe,
- inspire,
- instill,
- issue,
- jam,
- join,
- keynote,
- kidnap,
- letterpress,
- levy,
- line,
- lineaments,
- linoleum-block print,
- list,
- lithograph,
- lodge,
- look to,
- lump,
- mackle,
- make a mark,
- make an impression,
- mannerism,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- marking,
- mezzotint,
- mimeograph,
- mimeograph copy,
- mobilize,
- mold,
- mottle,
- move,
- multigraph,
- muster,
- muster in,
- nationalize,
- nature,
- negative,
- nick,
- notch,
- odor,
- offcut,
- offprint,
- offset,
- overprint,
- pack,
- pad,
- particularity,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- peculiarity,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- persuade,
- photocopy,
- photograph,
- Photostat,
- photostatic copy,
- pimple,
- pique,
- pit,
- plant,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- point,
- positive,
- pound,
- press,
- press in,
- prick,
- print,
- program,
- proof,
- property,
- prove,
- provoke,
- publish,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- pull,
- pull a proof,
- punch,
- punch in,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- put in requisition,
- put out,
- put to bed,
- put to press,
- quality,
- quirk,
- raise,
- reach,
- reaction,
- recess,
- recoil,
- recruit,
- recur to,
- refer to,
- reflex,
- reissue,
- repercussion,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- reprint,
- resort to,
- response,
- revert to,
- riddle,
- rock,
- root,
- rubber-block print,
- run,
- run away with,
- run off,
- savor,
- scar,
- scarify,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- seal,
- seam,
- seat,
- sequester,
- sequestrate,
- set,
- set back,
- set in,
- setoff,
- settle,
- shanghai,
- shape,
- sigil,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- signet,
- singularity,
- sink in,
- skyjack,
- smack,
- smite,
- snatch,
- socialize,
- specialty,
- speck,
- speckle,
- spirit away,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stamp,
- stat,
- step,
- stereotype,
- stigmatize,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- streak,
- stress,
- striate,
- strike,
- strike hard,
- strike home,
- stripe,
- stud,
- summon,
- sunken part,
- sway,
- taint,
- take to,
- tamp,
- tang,
- taste,
- tattoo,
- tell,
- thrill,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- tick,
- tick off,
- token,
- touch,
- trace,
- trait,
- traumatize,
- trick,
- turn to,
- turn to use,
- underline,
- underscore,
- urge,
- vestige,
- vignette,
- wedge,
- wood engraving,
- woodblock,
- woodcut,
- woodprint,
- Xerox,
- Xerox copy,
- xylograph
Words containing 'Impress'
- Impressed,
- Impresses,
- Impressibility,
- Impressible,
- Impressibleness,
- Impressibly,
- Impressing,
- Impression,
- Impressive,
- Impressively,
- Impressiveness,
- Impressment,
- under the impression,
- Centrifugal impression,
- Centripetal impression,
- Impress gang,
- Impress money,
- Proof impression,
- first impression,
- impressive aphasia,
- make an impression,
- sense impression,
- trial impression,
- wrong impression