Antonyms for impacts

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : noun im-pakt; verb im-pakt

Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈɪm pækt; verb ɪmˈpækt

Definition of impacts

Origin : c.1600, "press closely into something," from Latin impactus, past participle of impingere "to push into, dash against, thrust at" (see impinge). Originally sense preserved in impacted teeth (1876). Sense of "strike forcefully against something" first recorded 1916. Figurative sense of "have a forceful effect on" is from 1935. Related: Impacting.

noun collision, force
noun effect
verb hit with force

Example sentences :

Presently there came the gentlest of impacts and then a clanking sound.
Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster

Groans answered the impacts and he knew his blows were taking effect.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various

But if they could not see the fist to guard against it, they could see the results of the fist's impacts.
Extract from : « The Radiant Shell » by Paul Ernst

He was headed for the underground galleries when the first impacts came.
Extract from : « The Planet Strappers » by Raymond Zinke Gallun

These impacts were followed by the devastating years of war from 1861 to 1865.
Extract from : « Green Spring Farm » by Ross Netherton

Then he heard two impacts of the bullet, first as it struck upon stone, and then as glancing, it fell among the leaves.
Extract from : « The Keepers of the Trail » by Joseph A. Altsheler

The heating is the more intense the greater the number of impacts per second and the greater the energy of each impact.
Extract from : « The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla » by Thomas Commerford Martin

In 1668, Wallis postulated the correct theory of impacts of inelastic bodies, based on the principle of conservation of momentum.
Extract from : « Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. » by S. A. Reilly

This floe, about six feet thick and 100 ft. across, was eventually split and smashed by the impacts.
Extract from : « South! » by Sir Ernest Shackleton

These impacts set into more rapid motion the molecules of the plate; and the temperature of the tube rises.
Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills

Synonyms for impacts

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