<B>imposturous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like an impostor or imposture; deceitful. </DL>
<A NAME="imposure">
<B>imposure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of imposing; imposition. </DL>
<A NAME="impotable">
<B>impotable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not drinkable; unfit for drinking. </DL>
<A NAME="impotence">
<B>impotence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lack of strength or power; helplessness; quality or condition of being impotent. <BR> <I>Ex. The government was overthrown because of its impotence when the crisis arose.</I> </DL>
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<B>impotency, </B>noun. =impotence.</DL>
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<B>impotent, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>not having power; helpless. <BR> <I>Ex. The cripple fell back in an impotent rage. Without guns and ammunition the soldiers were impotent. We were impotent against the force of the tornado.</I> (SYN) weak, feeble, infirm. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of males) incapable of sexual intercourse. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) without control or restraint. <DD><I>noun </I> an impotent person. adv. <B>impotently.</B> noun <B>impotentness.</B> </DL>
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<B>impound, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to shut up in a pen or pound. <BR> <I>Ex. The town impounds stray animals.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to enclose or confine within limits. <BR> <I>Ex. A dam impounds water. Outraged by this exploitation, the father ordered them all home, impounded their instruments (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>to put in the custody of a law court. <BR> <I>Ex. The court impounded the documents to use as evidence.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to seize or hold back, especially by legal means. <BR> <I>Ex. The Administration moved to impound the funds of discontinued government programs.</I> adj. <B>impoundable.</B> noun <B>impounder.</B> </DL>
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<B>impoundment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>water that is impounded by a dam or other enclosure. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of impounding. </DL>
<A NAME="impoverish">
<B>impoverish, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make very poor. <BR> <I>Ex. A long drought had impoverished the farmers whose crops had died.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to exhaust the strength, richness, or resources of. <BR> <I>Ex. to impoverish the mind or the blood. Careless farming impoverishes the most fertile soil.</I> <DD> Also, <B>empoverish.</B> noun <B>impoverisher.</B> noun <B>impoverishment.</B> </DL>
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<B>impoverished, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very poor. <BR> <I>Ex. Compared to research for the farmer, the science of getting food from the sea is an impoverished newcomer in the U.S. (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>impower, </B>transitive verb. =empower.</DL>
<A NAME="impracticability">
<B>impracticability, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being impracticable. <DD><B> 2. </B>something impracticable. </DL>
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<B>impracticable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not working well in practice; not practicable. <BR> <I>Ex. impracticable suggestions.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>that cannot be used. <BR> <I>Ex. an impracticable road. Owing to a slight miscalculation, the invention proved to be impracticable (Lytton Strachey).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>very hard to manage or deal with; intractable. <BR> <I>Ex. an impracticable horse, an impracticable person. You are so utterly unreasonable and impracticable (George Bernard Shaw).</I> (SYN) unmanageable. noun <B>impracticableness.</B> </DL>
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<B>impracticably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an impracticable manner. </DL>
<A NAME="impractical">
<B>impractical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not practical; not useful. <DD><B> 2. </B>not having good sense. adv. <B>impractically.</B> noun <B>impracticalness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="impracticality">
<B>impracticality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality of being impractical. <BR> <I>Ex. I very much resent comments on the impracticality of small cars (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an impractical thing. </DL>
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<B>imprecate, </B>verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to call down (evil, curses, or other calamity). <BR> <I>Ex. The prophet imprecated ruin on his enemies.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to curse. noun <B>imprecator.</B> </DL>
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<B>imprecation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of calling down evil, curses, or calamity on a person. <BR> <I>Ex. Those gave way to torrents of the hatred, imprecation, and entreaty that have welled in Cyprus (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a curse. <BR> <I>Ex. The angry man shouted imprecations after the children who had broken his window.</I> </DL>
<B>imprecise, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not precise; lacking precision; inaccurate. <BR> <I>Ex. Wisdom was imprecise, my hand's loose judgment dark (New Yorker).</I> (SYN) inexact. adv. <B>imprecisely.</B> noun <B>impreciseness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="imprecision">
<B>imprecision, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> lack of precision; inexactness. <BR> <I>Ex. the general mess of imprecision of feeling (T. S. Eliot).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="impregnability">
<B>impregnability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being impregnable. </DL>
<A NAME="impregnable">
<B>impregnable</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that cannot be overthrown by force; able to resist attack. <BR> <I>Ex. an impregnable fortress. (Figurative.) The lawyer won his case with an impregnable argument. The terrible land of his exile loomed before him a frigid, an impregnable mass (Lytton Strachey).</I> (SYN) invincible, unconquerable. noun <B>impregnableness.</B> adv. <B>impregnably.</B> </DL>
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<B>impregnable</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be impregnated, as an egg. </DL>
<A NAME="impregnant">
<B>impregnant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a material or substance which has been impregnated into something else, especially as a preservative. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a waffle-shaped network of lead holds the impregnant that keeps the battery alive (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>impregnate, </B>verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make pregnant; fertilize. <DD><B> 2a. </B>to spread through the whole of; fill (with); saturate. <BR> <I>Ex. Seawater is impregnated with salt.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to mix (with); interpenetrate. <BR> <I>Ex. rock impregnated with magnetite.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to fill the mind of; inspire; imbue. <BR> <I>Ex. The captain impregnated the soldiers with his own fearless courage. A great book impregnates the mind with new ideas.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to make fruitful or productive. <DD><I>adj. </I> impregnated. </DL>
<A NAME="impregnation">
<B>impregnation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of impregnating. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being impregnated. <DD><B> 3. </B>a thing, influence, or element with which anything is impregnated. </DL>
<A NAME="impregnator">
<B>impregnator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that impregnates. </DL>
<A NAME="impresa">
<B>impresa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry, Obsolete.) an emblem or motto. </DL>
<A NAME="impresario">
<B>impresario, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sarios,</B> (Italian) <B>-sari.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the organizer, director, or manager of a concert tour, an opera or ballet company, or other, especially musical, entertainment. <DD><B> 2. </B>a showman. <BR> <I>Ex. a night club impresario.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a producer. <BR> <I>Ex. ... one of Broadway's top impresarios on the strength of his production of My Fair Lady (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="imprescriptible">
<B>imprescriptible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> existing independently of law or custom; not justly to be taken away or violated. <BR> <I>Ex. imprescriptible rights.</I> adv. <B>imprescriptibly.</B> </DL>
<B>impress</B> (1), verb, <B>-pressed</B> or (Archaic) <B>-prest,</B> <B>-pressing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings of; influence deeply. <BR> <I>Ex. A hero impresses us with his courage.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to fix in the mind. <BR> <I>Ex. She repeated the words to impress them in her memory.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make marks on by pressing or stamping. <BR> <I>Ex. We can impress wax with a seal.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to produce by pressure; imprint; stamp. <BR> <I>Ex. The clerk impressed his signature on the documents with a rubber stamp.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to apply with pressure. <BR> <I>Ex. But he ... his foot impress'd On the strong neck of that destructive beast (John Dryden).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to produce or generate (an electromotive force or potential difference) in a conductor from some outside source, such as a battery or dynamo. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make an impression, especially a favorable one. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) He could hear his own voice cracking with the desire to impress (Graham Greene).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an impression; mark; stamp. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) An author leaves the impress of his personality on what he writes.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of impressing. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an impression on the mind or feelings. <BR> <I>Ex. This kind of upbringing leaves an impress which some Texans are never able to outgrow (Harper's).</I> noun <B>impresser.</B> </DL>
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<B>impress</B> (2), verb, <B>-pressed</B> or (Archaic) <B>-prest,</B> <B>-pressing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to seize by authority for public use. <BR> <I>Ex. The police impressed our car in order to pursue the escaping robbers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to force (men) to serve in the armed forces. <BR> <I>Ex. The captain ... obtained permission to send parties on shore to impress seamen (Frederick Marryat).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to bring in and use; press (a thing) into service by argument, etc. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=impressment.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="impressibility">
<B>impressibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being impressible; impressionability. </DL>
