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imprint verb

• impress or stamp (a mark or outline) on a surface.
• "tyre marks were imprinted in the snow"
Similar: stamp, punch, print, impress, mark, engrave, deboss, etch, emboss,
• (of a young animal) come to recognize (another animal, person, or thing) as a parent or other object of habitual trust.
• "the bird thought I was its mother and imprinted on me"

imprint noun

• a mark or outline made by pressing something on to a softer substance.
• "he made imprints of the keys in bars of soap"
Similar: impression, print, mark, indentation,
• a printer's or publisher's name, address, and other details in a book or other publication.
Origin: late Middle English (originally as emprint ): from Old French empreinter, based on Latin imprimere, from in- ‘into’ + premere ‘to press’.


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