imprint
/ɪmˈpɹɪnt/ verb C2- To leave a print, impression, image, etc. · For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
He/she/it imprints · Past imprinted · Past participle imprinted · -ing form imprinting
Verb forms
- Base form
- imprint
- He/she/it
- imprints
- Past
- imprinted
- Past participle
- imprinted
- -ing form
- imprinting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“She will soon get over these things.” So saying, Madame de Saint-Méran extended her dry bony hand to Villefort, who, while imprinting a son-in-law’s respectful salute on it, looked at Renée, as much as to say, “I must try and fancy ’tis your dear hand I kiss, as it should have been.”
“No, indeed,” replied Madame de Villefort; “and yet it appears to me, sir, that if I had met you anywhere, the recollection of you must have been imprinted on my memory.”
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