impress
the act of coercing someone into government service
• Syn:
impressment
• Derivationally related forms:
impress (for: impressment)
• Hypernyms:
seizure
1. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon (Freq. 9)
- This child impressed me as unusually mature
- This behavior struck me as odd
• Syn:
affect, move, strike
• Derivationally related forms:
impressible, impressive, affective (for: affect), affect (for: affect)
• Hyponyms:
infect, surprise, ingrain, instill, awaken,
engrave, strike dumb, zap, jar, hit home, strike home,
strike a chord, strike a note, smite, cloud, pierce, sweep away,
sweep off, disturb, upset, trouble, touch, stir,
move, sadden, alienate
• Verb Group:
hit, strike, come to, motivate, actuate,
propel, move, prompt, incite
• Cause:
feel, experience
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will impress him
- The good news will impress her
2. impress positively (Freq. 8)
- The young chess player impressed her audience
• Derivationally related forms:
impressive
• Hypernyms:
affect, move, strike
• Hyponyms:
prepossess, wow
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to impress Sue
3. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of (Freq. 5)
- Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
• Syn:
ingrain, instill
• Derivationally related forms:
instilling (for: instill), impressive
• Hypernyms:
affect, move, strike
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
4. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure (Freq. 1)
- To make a batik, you impress a design with wax
• Syn:
imprint
• Derivationally related forms:
imprint (for: imprint), impression
• Hypernyms:
change surface
• Hyponyms:
stamp, emboss, boss
• Entailment:
press
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
5. reproduce by printing
• Syn:
print
• Derivationally related forms:
print (for: print), printer (for: print), printing (for: print)
• Hypernyms:
write
• Hyponyms:
letter, typeset, set, prove, offset,
overprint, print over, cyclostyle, boldface, italicize, italicise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
- The men were shanghaied after being drugged
• Syn:
shanghai
• Derivationally related forms:
impressment, shanghaier (for: shanghai)
• Topics:
crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
• Hypernyms:
kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
7. dye (fabric) before it is spun
• Syn:
yarn-dye
• Hypernyms:
dye
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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