Definition for

impress


noun – A mark or indentation made by pressure; the figure or image of anything imparted by pressure, or as if by pressure; stamp; impression; hence, any distinguishing form or character.

noun – Semblance; appearance.

To compel to enter into public service, as seamen; take into service by compulsion, as nurses during an epidemic.

To seize; take for public use: as, to impress provisions.

noun – Impressment.

To press upon or against; stamp in; mark by pressure; make an impression upon.

Hence To affect forcibly, as the mind or some one of its faculties; produce a mental effect upon: as, to impress the memory or imagination; the matter impressed him favorably.

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