Impact: alternatives and connections

A flowing in or upon; influx.

It can be gradual or indirect, whereas impact often suggests a more noticeable effect.

That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Mixed; confounded.

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To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

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To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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It.

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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

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The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of t…

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

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To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

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An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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of Fight

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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of Impinge

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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To leap back; to rebound.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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of Strike

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Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising…

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

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See Intrench.

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See Intrench.

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The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

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The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.

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The act of impinging.

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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

Often preferable to impact in precise academic prose when no forceful connotation is intended.

To leap back; to rebound.

A marked effect or influence.

The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

It is stronger and more negative than neutral impact.

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

The scale of consequence if an event occurs.

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

Use for what follows logically or potentially, not automatically for measured impact.