different between impress vs instil

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: ?mpr?s?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??s/

  Rhymes: -?s

• (noun) enPR: ?m?pr?s, IPA^(key): /??mp??s/
• Hyphenation: im?press

Verb

impress (third-person singular simple present impresses, present participle impressing, simple past and past participle impressed)

1. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

2. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

3. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

4. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
6. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

   • impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

7. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

8. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

   • the second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners

Synonyms

• (transitive: affect strongly and often favourably): make an impression on
• (intransitive: make an impression, be impressive): cut a figure
• (produce a vivid impression of):
• (mark or stamp (something) using pressure): imprint, print, stamp
• (compel (someone) to serve in a military force):: pressgang
• (seize or confiscate (property) by force):: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

Translations

Noun

impress (plural impresses)

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
   • 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton 2005, p. 1330:

     We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]

3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:

     Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]

5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

   • we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them

6. A heraldic device; an impresa.

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7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Translations

Derived terms

• impressed
• impression
• impressive
• impressively

Further reading

• impress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impress at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Persism, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?st?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Verb

instil (third-person singular simple present instils, present participle instilling, simple past and past participle instilled)

1. Alternative spelling of instill
   • 1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, page 70:

     her only real object in this call had been to instil a general uneasiness into Diva’s mind about the coal strike

Derived terms

• reinstil

Anagrams

• inlist