impress

impress is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
2. transitive verb. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
3. transitive verb. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
4. noun. To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
5. intransitive verb. To be impressed; to rest.
6. noun. The act of impressing or making.
7. noun. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
8. noun. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
9. noun. A device. See Impresa.
10. noun. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
11. noun. the act of coercing someone into government service

    Synonyms: impressment

12. verb. dye (fabric) before it is spun
13. verb. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

    "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"

    Synonyms: ingrain, instill

14. verb. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

    "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"

    Synonyms: shanghai

15. verb. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

    "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"

    Synonyms: imprint

16. verb. reproduce by printing

    Synonyms: print

17. verb. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

    "This child impressed me as unusually mature"

    "This behavior struck me as odd"

    Synonyms: affect, move, strike

18. verb. impress positively

    "The young chess player impressed her audience"

Synonyms

impressment, ingrain, instill, shanghai, imprint, print, affect, move, strike

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in impress:

permiss, persism, premiss, simpers, spirems

Common word forms

impressed, impresser, impresses, impressing, impressable, impressment

Words from these letters

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