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"text": "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.",
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"text": "Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.",
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"ref": "1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.",
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"(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate."
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"word": "ronselen"
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"text": "The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.",
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"text": "the second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners",
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"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "beïndruk"
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"roman": "tpavorel",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "տպավորել"
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"roman": "vpečatljavam",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "впечатлявам"
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"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impressionar"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "imponeren"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "indruk maken"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impresi"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "tehdä vaikutus"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impressionner"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "beeindrucken"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "entyposiázo",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "εντυπωσιάζω"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "téigh i bhfeidhm ar"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impressionare"
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"note": "mīror (The subject of \"to impress\" becomes the target of mīror and vicī versā in Classical Latin. This does not happen in post-Classical Latin.)",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably"
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"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "beandrocken"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "imponere"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impressionar"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proizvodítʹ vpečatlénije",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "производи́ть впечатле́ние"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "imponirovatʹ",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vpečatljatʹ",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "впечатлять"
},
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"tags": [
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"word": "izazivati divljenje"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "impresionar"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "etkilemek"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(transitive) affect (someone) strongly and often favourably",
"word": "gwneud argraff ar"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tpavorel",
"sense": "(intransitive) make an impression",
"word": "տպավորել"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(intransitive) make an impression",
"word": "tehdä vaikutus"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "(intransitive) make an impression",
"word": "pēpēhi"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "(intransitive) make an impression",
"word": "impressionar"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "(intransitive) make an impression",
"word": "gwneud argraff"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vnušavam",
"sense": "produce a vivid impression of",
"word": "внушавам"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "produce a vivid impression of",
"word": "tehdä vaikutus"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "produce a vivid impression of",
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"roman": "vpečatljatʹ",
"sense": "produce a vivid impression of",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "podpečatvam",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "painaa"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "prägen"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "imprimere"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "imprimō"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "whakangoto"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mark or stamp (something) using pressure",
"word": "imprimir"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "compel (someone) to serve in a military force",
"word": "ronselen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "compel (someone) to serve in a military force",
"word": "pakottaa"
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"code": "nrf",
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"sense": "compel (someone) to serve in a military force",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "seize or confiscate (property) by force",
"word": "takavarikoida"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "seize or confiscate (property) by force",
"word": "confiscare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "seize or confiscate (property) by force",
"word": "requisire"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "seize or confiscate (property) by force",
"word": "muru raupatu"
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"ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
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"ref": "1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton, published 2005, page 1330:",
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"text": "we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them",
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"ref": "1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practive and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:",
"text": "As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.",
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"word": "впечатляване"
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"sense": "act of impressing",
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"sense": "act of impressing",
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"sense": "impressed image or copy",
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"word": "впечатление"
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"sense": "impressed image or copy",
"word": "painate"
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"sense": "impressed image or copy",
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"word": "impresión"
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"sense": "impressed image or copy",
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"roman": "štempel",
"sense": "stamp or seal used to make an impression",
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"sense": "stamp or seal used to make an impression",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stamp or seal used to make an impression",
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"roman": "óttisk",
"sense": "stamp or seal used to make an impression",
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"sense": "impression on the mind, imagination",
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"sense": "characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp",
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