impress

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

   This child impressed me as unusually mature

2. 2
   verb

   impress positively

   The young chess player impressed the audience.

3. 3
   verb

   mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

   To make a batik, you impress a design with wax

4. 4
   verb

   To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

   You impressed me with your command of Urdu.

5. 5
   verb

   To make an impression, to be impressive.

   Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

6. 6
   verb

   To produce a vivid impression of (something).

   That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.

7. 7
   verb

   To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

   We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

8. 8
   verb

   To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

   impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

Etymology

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).