impress sth on/upon sb
— phrasal verb with impress uk/ɪmˈpres/us/ɪmˈpres/verb [ I or T, not continuous ]
to make someone understand or be familiar with the importance or value of something:
Mr Simmons tried to impress on me how much easier my life would be if I were better organized.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stressing & emphasizing
- accent
- accentuate
- drive
- emphasis
- emphatic
- freaking
- fronting
- gloss
- hammer
- hammer sth home idiom
- howling
- insistence
- place
- play
- play sth up
- point
- point sth out
- point sth up
- should
- underline
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