impress

To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably; to inspire admiration from (someone).transitive

• You impressed me with your command of Urdu.

To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably; to inspire admiration from (someone).; To make an impression; to be impressive; to arouse interest or favor.intransitivetransitive

• Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.transitive

• We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
• Then he impresses the die into the clay to produce a design on the surface.

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.; To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).transitive

• He impressed his signature into the wax.

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.; To produce a vivid impression of (something); to convince someone of one's nature.figurativelyintransitivereflexive

• That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
• I will impress the schedule upon her.

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.; To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to cause someone to understand and accept something.figurativelytransitive

• You have to impress the new vocabulary into your mind.
• She is impressing the rules onto the students.

To transfer or transmit.transitive

• The money was impressed into the hands of the financial ministry.
• His actions impress a message of selfishness to us all.

To transfer or transmit.; To transfer voltage onto metalwork through induced or capacitative processes.figurativelytransitive

• This process will impress voltage into the metal.

To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.transitive

• The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.

To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.; To seize or confiscate (property) by force, especially for military use.historicaltransitive

• The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.

The act of impressing.

An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

• This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.
• We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]

A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

• Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

• we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them

A heraldic device; an impresa.

• It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS
• To describe […] emblazon'd Shields, / Impreses quaint.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

• Why such impress of shipwrights?