To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
To make an impression, to be impressive.
Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
To produce a vivid impression of (something).
That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
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.
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).
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