impact

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of IMPACT

to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response <the tragic loss of his father impacted the boy for the rest of his life>

Synonyms impact, impress, influence, move, reach, strike, sway, tell (on), touch

Near Antonyms bore, jade, pall, tire, weary; underwhelm

to come into usually forceful contact with something <the damage sustained when a car going 40 miles an hour impacts with a brick wall>

Synonyms bang, bash, bump, collide, crash, impact, impinge, knock, ram, slam, smash, strike, swipe, thud

Related Words bounce, carom, clunk, glance, rebound, ricochet, skim, skip; contact, land, touch; brush, graze, kiss, nudge, scrape, shave, sweep; bulldoze, jostle, muscle, press, push

Near Antonyms miss, skirt

to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter <the bullet was found impacted in the police officer's protective vest>

Synonyms bed, embed (also imbed), enroot, fix, impact, implant, ingrain (also engrain), lodge, root

Related Words imbue, infuse, instill; beat (into), drive (into); establish, place, put, settle, stick

Near Antonyms eliminate, eradicate; eject, expel; detach, disconnect, disengage, remove

Antonyms dislodge, root (out), uproot

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