impress

Meanings

1. To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
2. To make an impression, to be impressive.
3. To produce a vivid impression of (something).
4. To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
6. To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
7. To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
8. To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Latin impressusder. Middle English impressen English impress 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”).