impinge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++im·pinge /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/ verb 1 impinge on/upon somebody/something phrasal verb formal EFFECT/INFLUENCEto have a harmful effect on someone or something 对…不利；妨碍 Personal problems experienced by students may impinge on their work. 学生遇到的个人问题可能会影响到他们的学业。 —impingement noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
impinge• The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field.• Except, of course, where they directly impinge on me, that is.• Or, indeed, the reverse, how does our understanding of Ireland currently impinge on our reading of Spenser?• They rarely study natural events, and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.• Certainly little awareness of Manhattan and its skyscrapers seemed to impinge on the people working on the Worldwide Plaza brick.• It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.• A person responds only to a small part of the stimuli impinging upon him.• It does not tell historians what to encode in a given source and thus impinge upon interpretation.Origin impinge (1500-1600) Latin impingere, from pangere “to fasten, drive in”im·pinge verbChineseSyllable
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impinge
im‧pinge /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/
verb
impinge on/upon somebody/something phrasal verb formal
to have a harmful effect on someone or something:
Personal problems experienced by students may impinge on their work.
—impingement noun [uncountable and countable]
im‧pinge /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/
verb Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: impingere, from pangere 'to fasten, drive in'
Language: Latin
Origin: impingere, from pangere 'to fasten, drive in'
impinge on/upon somebody/something phrasal verb formal
to have a harmful effect on someone or something:
—impingement noun [uncountable and countable]