How to pronounce “impress”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
• (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
• (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
• (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
• To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
• (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
• (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
• (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
• [Noun]
• The act of impressing.
• An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
• A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
• An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
• Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
• A heraldic device; an impresa.
• The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

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