impinge
verb (used without object)
to make an impression; have an effect or impact (usually followed by on orupon ).
have impinged
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present perfectof impinge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Tulalip Tribes argued in a lawsuit in June that Washington state's Department of Revenue and Snohomish County have impinged on their rights to self-determination and economic development enshrined in federal law and policy.
From Reuters ● Aug. 4, 2015
From Berlin unlimited funds and the feverish energy of Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels have impinged for months like blazing searchlights upon the Saar.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is by most geologists looked upon as the ground-moraine, partly of the huge Scandinavian glacier which is supposed to have impinged upon the English coast, partly of local British glaciers.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
Man is nothing more than a concretion formed from emanations of all the objects whose emanations have impinged upon living tissue since, at the beginning of the world, living tissue was formed.
From The Beach of Dreams by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
People have impinged more deeply upon others' lives and both by their entry and their leaving of them stood for less.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
