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impress something (up)on someone

to make someone fully aware of something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) You must impress these facts upon everyone you meet. She impressed its importance on me.

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I go no further than a conviction that the living are sometimes seen where they are not, but have been--where they have lived so long, perhaps so intensely, as to have left their impress on everything about them. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context "Then I can no longer hesitate as to my course," said Lydgate; "but the first thing I must impress on you is that my conclusions are doubly uncertain--uncertain not only because of my fallibility, but because diseases of the heart are eminently difficult to found predictions on. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind's spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context			imbue with Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery immediate occupancy immemorial immerse in immigrate to some place immunize against impact impact on impaired impale on impart to impasse impeach for impinge on implant in implicate import important impose on impregnate with impress impress as impress by impress into impress on impress with impression imprint imprint on imprint with imprison in improve on improvise on impute to in a bad mood in a bad way in a big way in a bind in a body in a class by in a cleft stick in a cold sweat in a coon's age in a dead heat in a delicate condition in a dither in a family way in a fix in a flash in a fog			Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda IMPREP Impreparation IMPRES impresa Impresa Trasporti Onoranze Funebri impresario impresario impresarios impresarios Imprescindible Imprescindible Imprescriptibility Imprescriptibility Imprescriptible Imprescriptibly Imprese Imprese in regime forfetario impress impress impress impress impress impress impress as impress by impress by repeated statement Impress gang impress into Impress money impress on Impress Softpatch impress upon the memory impress upon the mind impress with impress with mark Impressario Impressario Impressario impressed impressed impressed impressed Impressed current Impressed current Impressed Current Cathodic Protection impressed on impressed on impressed on impressed voltage impressed with oneself impresses impresses impresses impresses impresses on impresses on impresses on impressibility impressibility impressible

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