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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of impinge.

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Examples

  • AMPUTATION When worsel's hard-driven call impinged upon the Port Admiral's Lens he dropped everything to take the report himself.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Putting aside both his monumental fielding failure and his nice stroke up the middle which earlier helped establish the lead that his error would nearly destroy, it seems to me Delgado has gone back to playing "impinged," and as anyone with half a brain (read: not Omar) could have told you his "bargain" contract option as a first baseman and as a big bat was a trap that the Mets fell right into.

    It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations 2009

  • It struck me forcibly that trying to read Le Clezio when I was not about to teach it made it a process that simply impinged in a distressing way on my tender heart.

    Reading Dangerously « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • "The price of mortgage money is going to go up, and the availability of mortgage money may also be impinged," says Keith Gumbinger , vice president at HSH Associates, which tracks mortgage data.

    Getting a Mortgage Before the Door Shuts Karen Blumenthal 2011

  • In my town there is a wealthy and well connected country club with a golf course that has impinged on land belonging to the Edijo Lerdo.

    105 Families Evicted in Torre�n 2009

  • In my town there is a wealthy and well connected country club with a golf course that has impinged on land belonging to the Edijo Lerdo.

    105 Families Evicted in Torre�n 2009

  • Antagonisms within the military impinged on American success.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • If they truly believe that their rights are impinged upon they have both the money and other resources to access court to enforce their rights … but a can of worms of such magnitude will be opened up that most do not want to go this route.

    Global Voices in English » South Africa: Taxis Defiant of New Bus System for World Cup 2009

  • Long before there were gods or religion of any kind, You impinged on his existence at every turn, flowing in and out of him, making him smell this smell or think that thought, whether he liked it or not.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Even before the stunning development of bin Laden's death, the news had impinged on Sunday's prime time.

    Ratings: Bin Laden Coverage Skews Figures; Desperate Housewives Tops Viewership 2011

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