impingement
Americannoun
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the act or fact of encroaching or infringing.
This is an impingement on the fundamental right of free speech.
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the act or fact of striking or touching something, or the effect produced by this.
The impingement on the diamond’s hard crystal surface is due to oxygen in the air.
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Medicine/Medical. the act or fact of interfering with something, especially a nerve, through contact or pressure.
Impingement on the nerves can be relieved by removing the portion of the bone compressing the neural structures.
Etymology
Origin of impingement
Example Sentences
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Sasaki started using it in April, before a four-month recovery from a right shoulder impingement.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
By the time Sasaki finally went on the injured list with a shoulder impingement in early May, he had a 4.72 ERA and some of the worst underlying metrics in the majors.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
Sasaki went to the sideline in early May with a right shoulder impingement and wasn’t reactivated until the final week of the season — as a reliever.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
Roberts said postgame that Sasaki’s been shut down for the foreseeable future as the team treats his right-shoulder impingement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
They all enlarged upon the impingement of her bullets upon the marshal's wife's quinces, discussing the subject in the mock-serious vein that was common in their intercourse.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
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