{
    "term": "impress",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "impress",
            "heSheIt": "impresses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "impressed",
        "pastParticiple": "impressed",
        "ingForm": "impressing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "if a person or thing impresses you, you admire them or it",
            "sensetop": "impress (somebody)impress somebody with somethingit impresses somebody that…",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We interviewed a number of candidates but none of them impressed us.",
                    "contextForm": "impress (somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Grand Canyon never fails to impress people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Grand Canyon never fails to impress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His sincerity impressed her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He impressed her with his sincerity.",
                    "contextForm": "impress somebody with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It impressed me that she remembered my name.",
                    "contextForm": "it impresses somebody that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was young and easily impressed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This game is his big chance to impress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She impressed us with both the depth and range of her knowledge."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["really"],
                "verb + impress": ["be determined to", "be keen to", "hope to"],
                "preposition": ["with"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an attempt to impress somebody",
                    "an effort to impress somebody",
                    "be easily impressed"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody understand how important, serious, etc. something is by emphasizing it",
            "sensetop": "impress something on/upon somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He impressed on us the need for immediate action."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their responsibilities are impressed on them during training."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to have a great effect on something, especially somebody’s mind, imagination, etc.",
            "sensetop": "impress something/itself on/upon something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her words impressed themselves on my memory."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpres/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impress__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpresɪz/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impresses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈprest/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impressed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpresɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impressing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpres/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impress__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpresɪz/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impresses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈprest/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impressed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪmˈpresɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/impress/impressing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘apply with pressure’): from Old French empresser, from em- ‘in’ + presser ‘to press’, influenced by Latin imprimere, from in- ‘into’ + premere ‘to press’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 18th cent."
}