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impingeim‧pinge /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/ verb impingeOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin impingere, from pangere ‘to fasten, drive in’ VERB TABLEimpinge |
Present | I, you, we, they | impinge | | he, she, it | impinges | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | impinged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have impinged | | he, she, it | has impinged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had impinged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will impinge | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have impinged |
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Present | I | am impinging | | he, she, it | is impinging | | you, we, they | are impinging | Past | I, he, she, it | was impinging | | you, we, they | were impinging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been impinging | | he, she, it | has been impinging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been impinging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be impinging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been impinging |
- A person responds only to a small part of the stimuli impinging upon him.
- Certainly little awareness of Manhattan and its skyscrapers seemed to impinge on the people working on the Worldwide Plaza brick.
- Except, of course, where they directly impinge on me, that is.
- It does not tell historians what to encode in a given source and thus impinge upon interpretation.
- It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.
- Or, indeed, the reverse, how does our understanding of Ireland currently impinge on our reading of Spenser?
- The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field.
- They rarely study natural events, and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.
impinge on/upon somebody/something phrasal verb formal to have a harmful effect on someone or something: Personal problems experienced by students may impinge on their work.—impingement noun [countable, uncountable] |