to impinge

Examples

• All

• Rapid expansion of education with insufficient resource support may impinge upon the quality of services provided.

  Academic text (1992)

• Our general theories do impinge upon our discussion of details, or else they are not worth having.

  Academic text (1995)

• How, how much do you impinge on free speech in order to keep people safe?

• Other aspects of the system impinge heavily on the curriculum.

  Academic text (1998)

• Granted, there are many factors that impinge upon learning to improvise.

  Academic text (1994)

• Will some of us say, well, you're impinging on our rights as free citizens to do what we want to do.

• The state, early capitalism, and the social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The United States impinges on Ecuadorian politics in other important ways.

  Academic text (2004)

• The structures of inequality, as they impinge on the community of scholars, are larger and deeper than USIS.

  Academic text (1998)

• The new policy may impinge on employees' ability to work remotely, causing dissatisfaction.

Synonyms

I

to impact

vsto impinge

255 3.4

To have a strong effect on someone or something

has a negative effect but is not always as forceful

I

to impair

vsto impinge

61 5.1

To make something worse or less able to work

has a negative effect without directly causing physical damage

E

to encroach

vsto impinge

27 7.3

To gradually move into someone else's area, space, or rights without permission

affects others rather than slowly moving into physical or legal space

I

to impinge on

vsto impinge

• Formal

3 7.5

Have a negative effect on something, often limiting it

is the verb form used without an added preposition

T

to touch on

vsto impinge

3 4.0

To affect something or someone, often slightly

has a clearer negative effect rather than only a slight influence

Antonyms

A

to avoid

∞ 1.0

To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening

Phrasal Verbs

I

to impinge on

• Formal

3 7.5

Have a negative effect on something, often limiting it

I

to impinge on

8.0

Hit something suddenly

How Strong

to overwhelm

164 4.4

to impact

255 3.4

to impinge

• Formal

6 8.0

to influence

591 2.2

to affect

∞ 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology