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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To collide or strike: Sound waves impinge on the eardrum.
  2. v. To encroach; trespass: Do not impinge on my privacy.
  3. v. To encroach upon: "One of a democratic government's continuing challenges is finding a way to protect . . . secrets without impinging the liberties that democracy exists to protect” ( Christian Science Monitor).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To come in collision; collide; strike or dash: followed by on, upon, or against.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
  2. v. intransitive, figuratively To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
  3. v. intransitive To have an effect upon; to limit.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to clash with; -- with on or upon.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. advance beyond the usual limit
  2. v. impinge or infringe upon

Etymologies

  1. From Latin impingō ("dash against, impinge"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin impingere : in-, against; see in-2 + pangere, to fasten; see pag- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. strike
  1. hit
  1. collide

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. progress
  1. pass on
  1. move on
  1. march on
  1. go on
  1. advance
  1. take advantage
  1. trespass

rhymes (13)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Inge
  2. binge
  1. cringe
  2. fringe
  1. hinge
  2. infringe
  1. minge
  2. singe
  1. syringe
  2. tinge
  1. twinge
  2. unhinge
  1. winge

reverse dictionary (20)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. incide
  2. bottom
  3. anticathode
  4. color-equation
  1. trench
  2. impinge
  3. encroach
  4. entrench
  1. oxidator
  2. abut
  3. bank
  4. corner
  1. incur
  2. kiss
  3. language
  4. rake
  1. strike
  2. ray
  3. touch
  4. whistle

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  • bilby "Macklin argued that bioethics has done just fine with the principle of personal autonomy--the idea that, because all humans have the same minimum capacity to suffer, prosper, reason, and choose, no human has the right to impinge on the life, body, or freedom of another."
    - Steven Pinker, The Stupidity of Dignity, tnr.com, 28 May 2008. Sep 29, 2009

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