impression
/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/ verb C2- To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
He/she/it impressions · Past impressioned · Past participle impressioned · -ing form impressioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- impression
- He/she/it
- impressions
- Past
- impressioned
- Past participle
- impressioned
- -ing form
- impressioning
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But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin, although the Woodman fell over in the road and lay still.
Villefort’s first impression was favorable; but he had been so often warned to mistrust first impulses, that he applied the maxim to the impression, forgetting the difference between the two words.
Does that make any impression on your mind?”
He was cheery and genial to all, but somewhat offhand in his manners, giving the impression that he had seen life in social strata on some far lower horizon than the county society of Sussex.
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