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Verb impress has 7 senses
- affect, impress, move, strike - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
Sample sentences:
The bad news will impress him
The good news will impress her
- impress - impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
--2 is one way to affect, impress, move, strike
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to impress Sue
- impress, ingrain, instill - produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
--3 is one way to affect, impress, move, strike
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- impress, imprint - mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
--4 is one way to change surface
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- print, impress - reproduce by printing
--5 is one way to write
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- shanghai, impress - take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
--6 is one way to kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- impress, yarn-dye - dye (fabric) before it is spun
--7 is one way to dye
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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