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impress, impressment

n. the act of coercing someone into government service

impress

v. impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"

print, impress

v. reproduce by printing

impress, imprint

v. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"

shanghai, impress

v. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"

impress, yarn-dye

v. dye (fabric) before it is spun

affect, impress, move, strike

v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

impress, ingrain, instill

v. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"

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mark

v. make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"

imprint, form

v. establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children"

impress, imprint

v. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"

brand

v. burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals

blemish, spot

v. mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished"

imprint, form

v. establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children"

engrave, etch

v. carve or cut a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name"

mark

v. make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"

print, impress

v. reproduce by printing

hijack

v. seize control of; "they hijacked the judicial process"

sequester

v. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up

v. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

get across, put over

v. communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

exalt

v. raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"

determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate

v. shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"

overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake

v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

careen, wobble, shift, tilt

v. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture

v. fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

infuse

v. introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"

implant

v. become attached to and embedded in the uterus; "The egg fertilized in vitro implanted in the uterus of the birth mother with no further complications"

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