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IMPRESSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply or markedly affected or influenced
Classified under:
Similar:
affected (acted upon; influenced)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb impress
Context examples:
I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood: I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of all the amazing things which had happened, this seemed to have impressed my uncle most, and he recurred to it again and again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was little wonder that the richness and ornament, not only of church and of stall, but of every private house as well, should have impressed itself upon the young squires.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"'Your humble servant, James Laurence'. Only think of his writing that to you. I'll tell the girls. They'll think it's splendid," said Amy, much impressed by the note.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All this, which takes me so long to describe, impressed itself upon me in a few seconds.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They impressed him as possessing superior power, and it is on power that godhead rests.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They took a slight survey of all; and Catherine was impressed, beyond her expectation, by their multiplicity and their convenience.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
