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to come into usually forceful contact with something
- hail was noisily impinging upon the car's exterior
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“Impinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impinge. Accessed 18 Sep. 2020.
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The first known use of impinge was in 1605
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