Impacting

verb

Word Frequency: 0.5

Definitions

1.verbTo collide or strike, the act of impinging.

"When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends."

2.verbTo compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.

"The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do."

3.verbTo influence; to affect; to have an impact on.

"I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule."

4.verbTo stamp or impress onto something.

"Ideas impacted on the mind."

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