IMPINGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impinge mean? 

• IMPINGE (verb)
  The verb IMPINGE has 2 senses:

1. impinge or infringe upon

2. advance beyond the usual limit

  Familiarity information: IMPINGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPINGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they impinge    ... he / she / it impinges   
Past simple: impinged   
Past participle: impinged   
-ing form: impinging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impinge or infringe upon

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

encroach; entrench; impinge; trench

Context example:

This matter entrenches on other domains

Hypernyms (to "impinge" is one way to...):

take advantage; trespass (make excessive use of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

impingement (influencing strongly)

impinging (the physical coming together of two or more things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Advance beyond the usual limit

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

encroach; impinge; infringe

Hypernyms (to "impinge" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

You can know only that much of the play and interplay of force and matter as impinges in one way or another on our senses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A number of multi-step DNA repair pathways including nucleotide excision repair, homologous recombination and post-replication/translesion repair all impinge on their repair.

(DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

Letting go seems to impinge on your sense of financial security.  

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was as though, somewhere, a piano were playing and the actual notes were impinging on his ear-drums.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The report says the spread of the disease has impinged not only on biodiversity but also on human activities linked to the declining species.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)

Life flowed past him, deep and wide and varied, continually impinging upon his senses, demanding of him instant and endless adjustments and correspondences, and compelling him, almost always, to suppress his natural impulses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Due to its location in the sella turcica, expansion of the tumor mass can impinge on the optic chiasm or involve the temporal lobe, third ventricle and posterior fossa.

(Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the acoustic impedance of perflutren lipid microspheres is much lower than that of blood, impinging ultrasound waves are scattered and reflected at the microsphere-blood interface and may be visualized with ultrasound imaging.

(Perflutren Lipid Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the acoustic impedance of perflutren protein-type A microspheres is much lower than that of blood, impinging ultrasound waves are scattered and reflected at the microsphere-blood interface and may be visualized with ultrasound imaging.

(Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

At the same time a wave of intense virility seemed to surge out from him and impinge upon her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)