impress

1. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.Examples: "You impressed me with your command of Urdu."; "Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected."; "Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much"

2. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.Examples: "Henderson impressed in his first game as captain."; "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."Synonyms: cut a figure

3. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).Examples: "That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind."

4. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.Examples: "We impressed our footprints in the wet cement."Synonyms: imprint, print, stamp

5. (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.Examples: "impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them."

6. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.Examples: "The press gang used to impress people into the Navy."Synonyms: pressgang