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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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
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Example Sentences

Climate change affects us all, but it affects some areas of the world disproportionately and we must use the resources we have to help those who are the most impacted.

From Time

Work on the canonical issue continues, with about 55% of impacted URLs restored.

Rather than layoffs, Insider has been able to redeploy staffers into areas where the business is still growing and less impacted.

From Digiday

One of the most impacted ZIP codes includes the San Ysidro Elementary School District, which has some of the highest rates of student homelessness in the county, a measure that includes families living in overcrowded or substandard conditions.

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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