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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impress \Im*press"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Impressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impressing}.] [L. impressus, p. p. of imprimere to impress; pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See {Press} to squeeze, and cf. {Imprint}.]
1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed. --Shak.
2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
3. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them. --I. Watts.
4. [See {Imprest}, {Impress}, noun, 5.] To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. --Evelyn.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
impressed \impressed\ pred. adjective having the conscious mind deeply or markedly affected or influenced; -- usually used with by or with. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impressed
adjective: deeply or markedly affected or influenced [syn: {impressed(p)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "impressed": affected, agonized, carved, confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, devoured by, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, furrowed, glyphic, graved, graven, grooved, imbued with, implanted, impressed with, imprinted, incised, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed, insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established, marked, moved, obsessed, obsessed by, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, penetrated with, printed, racked, rooted, sculptured, seized with, set, settled, stabilized, stamped, stricken, tooled, torn, tortured, touched, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, wracked
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