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imprint[1,verb] imprinting

Main Entry: ¹im·print
Pronunciation: im-'print, 'im-"
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English emprenten, from Anglo-French emprient, 3d singular of enpreindre to impress (from Latin imprimere) & empreinter, from emprent, past participle of enpreindre
transitive verb
1 : to mark by or as if by pressure : IMPRESS
2 a : to fix indelibly or permanently (as on the memory) b : to subject to or induce by imprinting <an imprinted preference>
intransitive verb : to undergo imprinting
- im·print·er /-'prin-t&r, -"prin-/ noun