impressing
- 1Present participle and gerund of impress.
She spent the evening impressing the investors with a detailed business plan.
Impressing a skeptical audience takes more than a confident smile.
Note
One -ing form does two jobs here. It works as a verb in progressive and participial phrases (was impressing the board) and as a noun when it is a gerund (impressing a crowd is hard work). The preposition shows which meaning is at work. You impress someone with something to win their admiration. You impress something on or upon someone, or a mark upon a surface, to stamp it, whether in wax or, figuratively, in the mind.
The teacher kept impressing on her students the importance of checking their sources.
The machine was impressing a crest upon each wax seal.
impressing is a form of impress
impress, verb: To affect someone strongly, often in a way that wins their admiration or approval. Full entry
- Spelling
- impress → impressing: add -ing
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