impress1
• verb 1 make (someone) feel admiration and respect. 2 make a mark or design on using a stamp or seal. 3 (impress on) emphasize (an idea) in the mind of. • noun 1 an act of impressing a mark. 2 an impressed mark. 3 a person’s characteristic mark or quality. — ORIGIN Old French empresser ‘press in’.
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