Verb

(es)

To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}

To make an impression, to be impressive.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.}}

To produce a vivid impression of (something).

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

* Shakespeare

his heart, like an agate, with your print impressed

To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

* I. Watts

Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.

To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

* Evelyn

the second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners