impress
im pres
- n the act of coercing someone into government service
- v have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
This child impressed me as unusually mature - v impress positively
The young chess player impressed her audience - v produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
- v mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
To make a batik, you impress a design with wax - v reproduce by printing
- v take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
- v dye (fabric) before it is spun
- Chosen to impress, perhaps? Are you implying, in a racist fashion, that the people of China are so malnourished through melamine contaminants that they can't grow above a height of .
- I know that in my 20s I had wanted to impress my family and my heterosexual friends with my stability.
- At the same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support.