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impact

Definition

  • noun: the act or force of one thing hitting another
  • verb: to fix firmly by or as if by packing or wedging
  • verb: to have a strong and often bad effect on (something or someone)
  • often + 'on'
  • synonyms: affect, strike, collision

Examples

  • We hope that these programs will have a positive 'impact on' the community. [=will help the community]

  • The stress of her job is having a negative 'impact on' her health. [=is harming her health]

  • We need to be concerned about the environmental 'impacts' of all this construction.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Miss Teschmacher! Radar contact strong. Miss Teschmacher! Radar report Navy Bird. San Andreas area. Navy Bird heading down, seconds to impact. seconds and counting. A military missile has exploded in the Southern California desert. The force of the explosion has activated the San Andreas fault. (..)
    1978 Superman