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Antonyms for impacted

Grammar : Verb
Spell : im-pak-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpæk tɪd

Definition of impacted

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.
  • verb hit with force
Example sentences :
  • Snow is hospitable-clean, impacted snow; restful and silent.
  • Extract from : « Pierre And His People, [Tales of the Far North], Complete » by Gilbert Parker
  • And once more Judge Witberg impacted his features on a fist and was sent to grass.
  • Extract from : « The Night-Born » by Jack London
  • In figure 23 we have a similar fabric closely woven or impacted.
  • Extract from : « Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States » by William Henry Holmes
  • It will depend on the size of the calculus, on the point where impacted, and on the impressionability of the subject.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • Fracture of an impacted calculus is not a merely fanciful expedient.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • In respect to external ear trouble, impacted cerumen is usually found to result from water in the ear, or wax in the ear.
  • Extract from : « The Deaf » by Harry Best
  • I stooped to touch Drake; sparks leaped from my outstretched fingers, great green sparks that crackled as they impacted upon him.
  • Extract from : « The Metal Monster » by A. Merritt
  • Thus, dried apples became one solid breccial mass of impacted angularities, a conglomerate of sliced chalcedony.
  • Extract from : « Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack » by Elisha Kent Kane
  • They fluttered past Jim's face, one impacted against his chest with a thud that rocked him where he hovered.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
  • AIDS impacted on the sense of invulnerability, assumed by individuals in industrialized countries as almost a right.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

Synonyms for impacted

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