impact
verb/ɪmˈpækt/
/ɪmˈpækt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they impact | /ɪmˈpækt/ /ɪmˈpækt/ |
| he / she / it impacts | /ɪmˈpækts/ /ɪmˈpækts/ |
| past simple impacted | /ɪmˈpæktɪd/ /ɪmˈpæktɪd/ |
| past participle impacted | /ɪmˈpæktɪd/ /ɪmˈpæktɪd/ |
| -ing form impacting | /ɪmˈpæktɪŋ/ /ɪmˈpæktɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to have an effect on somebody/something synonym affect
- impact on/upon somebody/something Her father's death impacted greatly on her childhood years.
- These restrictions will impact on all farmers in Ireland.
- impact somebody/something environmental factors that may negatively impact children's development
- The company's performance was impacted by the high value of the pound.
Extra Examples- The border dispute could impact on the work of aid agencies.
- The cuts will inevitably impact on service delivery.
- They need to take into consideration that their actions directly impact other people.
- [intransitive, transitive] impact (on/upon/with) something (formal) to hit something with great force
Word Originearly 17th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘press closely, fix firmly’): from Latin impact- ‘driven in’, from the verb impingere ‘drive something in or at’, from in- ‘into’ + pangere ‘fix, drive’.
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