| 单词 | impress |
| 释义 | impress (once / 49 pages) 1vn 2v 3v 4v Think of the verb impress as "leaving a mark." You might impress a print onto canvas, or you might impress prospective employers in a job interview. Whether that impression will be good or bad is up to you! The past participle of the Latin verb imprimere, "to press," is impressus, which evolved in the 14th Century to the meaning "to make a permanent image." That meaning included a figurative meaning of "to impress upon the mind or heart." Impress also means conscription into the military, or taking people to serve against their will — in other words, the draft. WORD FAMILYimpress: impressed, impresses, impressible, impressing, impression, impressive, impressment+/impressed: unimpressed/impressible: impressibly/impression: impressionable, impressionistic, impressions/impressionable: unimpressionable/impressionistic: impressionistically/impressive: impressively, impressiveness, unimpressive/impressment: impressments/unimpressive: unimpressively USAGE EXAMPLESBut, it was the massive tulip poplar that impressed him. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) He also impressed on the students that they were just playing a game. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Not that Baldwin seemed too impressed about it afterward. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v have an emotional or cognitive impact upon This child impressed me as unusually mature Syn|Hypo affect, move, strike actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel give an incentive for action come to, hit, strikecause to experience suddenly infect affect in a contagious way surprisecause to be surprised ingrain, instillproduce or try to produce a vivid impression of awakenmake aware engraveimpress or affect deeply strike dumbrender speechless, as by surprising or shocking zapstrike suddenly and with force jaraffect in a disagreeable way hit home, strike a chord, strike a note, strike homerefer to or be relevant or familiar to smiteaffect suddenly with deep feeling cloudmake gloomy or depressed piercemove or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply sweep away, sweep offoverwhelm emotionally disturb, trouble, upsetmove deeply stir, touchaffect emotionally movearouse sympathy or compassion in saddenmake unhappy alienatemake withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated amaze, astonish, astoundaffect with wonder explode a bombshellutter or do something surprising catchdiscover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state boggle, bowl over, flabbergastovercome with amazement agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn oncause to be agitated, excited, or roused joltdisturb (someone's) composure cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhingedisturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed prepossessmake a positive impression (on someone) beforehand wowimpress greatly getevoke an emotional response distresscause mental pain to ball over, blow out of the water, floor, shock, take abacksurprise greatly; knock someone's socks off weigh down, weigh onbe oppressive or disheartening to 2v produce or try to produce a vivid impression of Syn|Hyper ingrain, instill affect, move, strike have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 3v impress positively The young chess player impressed her audience Hypo|Hyper prepossess make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand wowimpress greatly affect, move, strike have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 4n the act of coercing someone into government service 2Syn|Hyper impressment seizure the taking possession of something by legal process 1v reproduce by printing Syn|Hypo|Hyper print letter set down or print with letters set, typesetset in type provetake a trial impression of offsetproduce by offset printing overprint, print overprint (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper cyclostyleprint with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil boldfaceprint in boldface italicise, italicizeprint in italics surchargeprint a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote write mark or trace on a surface 2v mark or stamp with or as if with pressure 3To make a batik, you impress a design with wax Syn|Hypo|Hyper imprint stamp to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something boss, emboss, stampraise in a relief date, date stampstamp with a date handstamp, rubberstampstamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document frank, postmarkstamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing blockstamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface v take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship 4Syn|Hyper shanghai abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom v dye (fabric) before it is spun Syn|Hyper yarn-dye dye color with dye |
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