Collocations for "impressed"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "impressed" in context.
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impress
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- impress [a girl, your friends, the teacher, visitors, the reader]
- impressed them with [a trick, his skills, her knowledge]
- impress [them, people] by [doing, making, juggling, throwing]
- impressed [her, everyone, nobody]
- [tried, wanted, failed, managed, needed] to impress
- [keen, trying] to impress (me)
- impress upon you the [importance, necessity, severity] of
- impress on you the [importance] of
- cannot impress (it) upon you enough
- [dress, dressed] to impress
- [very, genuinely] impressed by the [trick]
- impress a [mark, stamp, picture, logo] (on)
- impress a [mark] [on, upon]
- impress a [book, cover, document] with a [mark]
- doesn't impress me [much, very much, greatly]
- I wasn't [very, hugely, that] impressed
- it takes a lot (more than that) to impress me
- [it'll take, it's going to take, you'll have to do] more than that to impress me
'impressed' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ambition
- be
- certainty
- deeply
- fail
- handling
- impress
- initiative
- management
- perception
- pluck
- surprised
- trick