impress

CEFRA2

/ɪmˈpɹɛs/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To make someone admire or respect you.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To make an impression, to be impressive.

Examples

  • Parents try to impress upon their children the importance of honesty and hard work.

  • Tom seems to be trying to impress the new manager.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɪmpɹɛs/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To produce a vivid impression of (something).

  2. To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

  3. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

More examples

In context

  • How does America impress you?

  • Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

  • That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

To win the competition, she wanted to blank the judges with her outstanding performance.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).