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See definition of impress on Dictionary.com
  • verbinfluence
  • verbpress down to make design
  • verbemphasize

synonyms for impress

  • affect
  • awe
  • excite
  • faze
  • inspire
  • sway
  • thrill
  • touch
  • arouse
  • buffalo
  • bulldoze
  • carry
  • electrify
  • enforce
  • enthuse
  • galvanize
  • get
  • grab
  • grandstand
  • kill
  • move
  • overawe
  • pique
  • provoke
  • register
  • score
  • slay
  • stimulate
  • stir
  • strike
  • be conspicuous
  • blow away
  • knock out
  • make a hit
  • make an impression
  • make splash
  • push around
  • show off
See also synonyms for: impressed / impresses / impressing

antonyms for impress

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  • discourage
  • bear
  • bore
  • calm
  • create
  • delight
  • depress
  • dissuade
  • fail
  • give birth
  • leave alone
  • lose
  • miss
  • please
  • stop
  • neglect
  • take apart
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How to use impress in a sentence

We have to remember that his daily life, where the home is orderly, helps to impress on him regularity of form.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
Ramona herself bore no impress of sorrow; rather her face had now an added radiance.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
He took both her hands between his as he spoke; not so much, it seemed in affection, as to impress solemnity upon her.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
This glow of feeling and exhilaration gave a new impress of sweetness and fascination to her beauty.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Almost all the variety of the landscape is due to this impress of water action which has operated on the surface in past ages.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
The point I want to impress upon your mind is that there's an element within you, called self, that you must learn to control.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUM
The way in which they worked together was not edifying, nor calculated to impress the natives with a sense of dignity and power.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS, VOL. II (OF 3)RICHARD BAGWELL
The father did not impress her as being the man to hold up her fainting head or ease her bruised heart.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
She rose then, and I stood too, still holding her hand that I had seized in my own to impress her with my sincerity.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELL
The need of a holiday amid the bricks and mortar of Victoria Street may have impressed Arbuthnot, but it did not impress me.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO IMPRESS

  • act on
  • alter
  • change
  • disturb
  • impinge
  • impress
  • induce
  • influence
  • inspire
  • interest
  • involve
  • modify
  • move
  • overcome
  • perturb
  • prevail
  • regard
  • relate
  • stir
  • sway
  • touch
  • transform
  • upset
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