impress
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(noun) the act of coercing someone into government service |
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Synonyms: impressment |
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Related Words: seizure |
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(verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun |
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Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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Related Words: dye |
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(verb) make a deep and indelible impression on someone |
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Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
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Related Words: affect, impress, move, strike |
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(verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" |
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Synonyms: imprint |
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Related Words: boss, change surface, emboss, stamp |
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(verb) impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience" |
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Related Words: affect, impress, move, prepossess, strike, wow |
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(verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, esp. on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after ebing drugged" |
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Synonyms: shanghai |
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Related Words: abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch |
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(verb) reproduce by printing |
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Synonyms: print |
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Related Words: boldface, cyclostyle, italicize, letter, multigraph, overprint, print over, prove, typeset, write |
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(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This struck me as odd" |
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Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
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Related Words: cloud, disturb, hit home, impress, ingrain, instill, move, pierce, sad, sadden, smite, stir, strike a chord, strike home, sweep away, sweep off, touch, trouble, upset |
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