impacted

[im-pak-tid]

adjective

1. tightly or immovably wedged in.

2. Dentistry.,  noting a tooth so confined in its socket as to be incapable of normal eruption.

3. driven together; tightly packed.

4. densely populated or crowded; overcrowded.

   an impacted school district.

impacted

/ ɪmˈpæktɪd /

adjective

1. (of a tooth) unable to erupt, esp because of being wedged against another tooth below the gum

2. (of a fracture) having the jagged broken ends wedged into each other

Other Word Forms

• nonimpacted adjective
• unimpacted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of impacted¹

First recorded 1675–85; obsolete adjective impact (from Latin impāctus, past participle of impingere “to fasten, cause to collide, strike,” equivalent to im- “in” + pag-, variant stem of pangere “to drive in, plant firmly” + -tus past participle suffix) + -ed ²; im- ¹, impinge

Example Sentences

So you may be impacted when the time comes, says Richard Johnson, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit economic and social research organization in Washington, D.C.

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They will be in the next wave of drugs impacted by the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare price negotiations.

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“Eighty percent also of consumers are really being very conscious about inflation, and inflation that is impacted as a result of tariffs.”

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She said parents should not give their children smartphones until they were at least 16, otherwise "their mental and physical health, developmental and social skills will be hugely impacted".

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All impacted users have been contacted and Discord is working with law enforcement to investigate the matter, it added.

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