| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| imping | present participle & vb. noun | of Imp, The act or process of grafting or mending., The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing. |
| impact | verb t. | To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place., Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated., The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest. |
| impair | verb t. | To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value., To grow worse; to deteriorate., Not fit or appropriate., Diminution; injury. |
| impale | verb t. | To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale., To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround., To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. |
| impalm | verb t. | To grasp with or hold in the hand. |
| impark | verb t. | To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up. |
| imparl | verb i. | To hold discourse; to parley., To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment. |
| impart | noun | To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth., To obtain a share of; to partake of., To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose., To give a part or share., To hold a conference or consultation. |
| impave | verb t. | To pave. |
| impawn | verb t. | To put in pawn; to pledge. |
| impede | verb t. | To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. |
| impent | of Impen | |
| impend | verb t. | To pay., To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent. |
| impery | noun | Empery. |
| impest | verb t. | To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague. |
| imphee | noun | The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), — resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane. |
| impire | noun | See Umpire. |
| implex | adjective | Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. |
| impone | verb t. | To stake; to wager; to pledge. |
| impoon | noun | The duykerbok. |
| impoor | verb t. | To impoverish. |
| import | verb t. | To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; — opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc., To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify., To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern., To signify; to purport; to be of moment., Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; — generally in the plural, opposed to exports., That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like., Importance; weight; consequence. |
| impose | verb t. | To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit., To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute., To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination., To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; — said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc., To practice trick or deception., A command; injunction. |
| impost | noun | That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country., The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests. |
| impugn | verb t. | To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. |
| impune | adjective | Unpunished. |
| impure | adjective | Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc., Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; — said of persons or things., Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas., Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean., Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style., To defile; to pollute. |
| impute | verb t. | To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; — generally in a bad sense., To adjudge as one’s own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us., To take account of; to consider; to regard. |