Impinge vs Impugn - What's the difference?
impinge | impugn |
To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
* , vol.1, New York Review Books, 2001, p.287:
(figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
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To have an effect upon; to limit.
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, chapter=4, title= (obsolete) To assault, attack.
To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.
As verbs the difference between impinge and impugn
is that impinge is to make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon) while impugn is to assault, attack.impinge
English
Verb
(imping)- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}