Thesaurus / impress
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We have to remember that his daily life, where the home is orderly, helps to impress on him regularity of form.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYRamona herself bore no impress of sorrow; rather her face had now an added radiance.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONHe 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 WOODThis glow of feeling and exhilaration gave a new impress of sweetness and fascination to her beauty.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTAlmost 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 SHALERThe 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. BYRUMThe 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 BAGWELLThe father did not impress her as being the man to hold up her fainting head or ease her bruised heart.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREENShe 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 TARBELLThe need of a holiday amid the bricks and mortar of Victoria Street may have impressed Arbuthnot, but it did not impress me.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEWORDS RELATED TO IMPRESS
- act upon
- affect
- alter
- argue into
- arouse
- be recognized
- bias
- brainwash
- bribe
- bring to bear
- carry weight
- change
- channel
- compel
- control
- count
- determine
- direct
- dispose
- form
- get at
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- have a part in
- impact on
- impel
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- incite
- incline
- induce
- instigate
- manipulate
- modify
- mold
- move
- persuade
- predispose
- prejudice
- prevail
- prompt
- pull strings
- regulate
- rouse
- rule
- seduce
- sell
- shape
- snow
- soft sell
- sway
- talk into
- train
- turn
- urge
- work upon
- affect
- animate
- arouse
- be responsible for
- carry
- cause
- commove
- elate
- embolden
- endue
- enkindle
- enliven
- exalt
- excite
- exhilarate
- fire up
- galvanize
- get
- give impetus
- give one an idea
- give rise to
- hearten
- imbue
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- infect
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- influence
- inform
- infuse
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- instill
- invigorate
- motivate
- occasion
- produce
- provoke
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- spur
- start off
- stir
- strike
- sway
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- causes
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- gives one an idea
- gives rise to
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- informs
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- inspirits
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- invigorates
- is responsible for
- motivates
- occasions
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- provokes
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- brainwashing
- catechizing
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- disseminating
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- inculcating
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- infiltrating
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- injecting
- inoculating
- inseminating
- inserting
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- interjecting
- intermixing
- programing
- propagandizing
- putting in head
- suffusing
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- accent
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- affirm
- articulate
- assert
- bear down
- charge
- dramatize
- dwell on
- enlarge
- enunciate
- feature
- headline
- highlight
- hit
- impress
- indicate
- insist on
- labor the point
- limelight
- maintain
- make a point
- make clear
- make emphatic
- make much of
- mark
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- play up
- point out
- point up
- press
- pronounce
- punctuate
- put accent on
- reiterate
- repeat
- rub in
- spotlight
- stress
- underline
- underscore
- weight
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