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impacted
[ im-pak-tid ]
adjective
- tightly or immovably wedged in.
- Dentistry. noting a tooth so confined in its socket as to be incapable of normal eruption.
- driven together; tightly packed.
- densely populated or crowded; overcrowded:
an impacted school district.
impacted
/ ɪmˈpæktɪd /
adjective
- (of a tooth) unable to erupt, esp because of being wedged against another tooth below the gum
- (of a fracture) having the jagged broken ends wedged into each other
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- nonim·pacted adjective
- unim·pacted adjective
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Example Sentences
Depending on what parts of the brain are impacted, the person can develop forms of dementia and personality changes.
I think all of us who are impacted by it have been referencing it in one way or another for years in our work.
But by our estimate, the number of people impacted by Chase account closures is closer to tens than hundreds.
McCain said he would not be impacted financially by being subject to a visa ban and asset freeze in the Russian Federation.
Nearly half of a solid 45 percent say the Internet has impacted their relationship.
In the twilight gloom his glittering rows of shark's teeth seemed impacted on my eyeball—I saw them, and nothing else.
This Plate represents the head fixed, or impacted, at the upper strait of a narrow pelvis.
When they are so impacted as to prevent the delivery being completed, the accoucheur must interfere.
The nates may become so firmly impacted in the pelvis, that they cannot advance without artificial assistance.
The minute bronchial ramifications and corresponding lobules were impacted with dense carbon.
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