Impress
- v. i. To be impressed; to rest.
- v. t. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
- v. t. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- v. t. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
- n. To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.