Usually means: Make a notable or memorable impact.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. impress: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. impress, impress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impress, impress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impress: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impress, impress: Wordnik
  7. impress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impress: Wiktionary
  9. impress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impress: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Impress, impress: Dictionary.com
  13. impress (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. impress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. IMPRESS, Impress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Impress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. impress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. impress: Rhymezone
  19. impress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. impress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. impress: Free Dictionary
  22. impress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. impress: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. impress: Legal dictionary

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  1. impress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. IMPRESS: Medical dictionary

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  1. IMPRESS: Acronym Finder
  2. impress: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impress: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
verb:  (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
verb:  (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
verb:  To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
verb:  (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
verb:  (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
verb:  (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
noun:  The act of impressing.
noun:  An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
noun:  A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
noun:  An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
noun:  Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
noun:  A heraldic device; an impresa.
noun:  The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

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