English Dictionary

impress

verb

(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. / (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive. / (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

She always tries to impress her boss with her work.

意味（1）

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

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

意味（7）

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

The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.

意味（8）

(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.