Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imprint
Participle: imprinted
Gerund: imprinting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | imprint |
| you | imprint |
| he;she;it | imprints |
| we | imprint |
| you | imprint |
| they | imprint |
Perfect
| I | have imprinted |
| you | have imprinted |
| he;she;it | has imprinted |
| we | have imprinted |
| you | have imprinted |
| they | have imprinted |
Past
| I | imprinted |
| you | imprinted |
| he;she;it | imprinted |
| we | imprinted |
| you | imprinted |
| they | imprinted |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprinted |
| you | had imprinted |
| he;she;it | had imprinted |
| we | had imprinted |
| you | had imprinted |
| they | had imprinted |
Future
| I | will imprint |
| you | will imprint |
| he;she;it | will imprint |
| we | will imprint |
| you | will imprint |
| they | will imprint |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imprinted |
| you | will have imprinted |
| he;she;it | will have imprinted |
| we | will have imprinted |
| you | will have imprinted |
| they | will have imprinted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imprint |
| you | imprint |
| he;she;it | imprint |
| we | imprint |
| you | imprint |
| they | imprint |
Perfect
| I | have imprinted |
| you | have imprinted |
| he;she;it | have imprinted |
| we | have imprinted |
| you | have imprinted |
| they | have imprinted |
Imperfect
| I | imprinted |
| you | imprinted |
| he;she;it | imprinted |
| we | imprinted |
| you | imprinted |
| they | imprinted |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprinted |
| you | had imprinted |
| he;she;it | had imprinted |
| we | had imprinted |
| you | had imprinted |
| they | had imprinted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imprint |
| you | would imprint |
| he;she;it | would imprint |
| we | would imprint |
| you | would imprint |
| they | would imprint |
Perfect
| I | would have imprinted |
| you | would have imprinted |
| he;she;it | would have imprinted |
| we | would have imprinted |
| you | would have imprinted |
| they | would have imprinted |
Imperative
| you | imprint |
| we | Let's imprint |
| you | imprint |
Verbs conjugated like 'imprint'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'imprint'
emprint,
impaint,
bioprint,
comprint,
imbring,
implant,
imprest,
misprint,
print,
reimprint,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1374, from O.Fr.
empreinter, from
empreinte, noun use of fem. pp. of
eimpreindre "to impress, imprint," from V.L.
*impremere, from L.
imprimere "to impress, imprint" (see impress).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
4. Proto-Italic *en
5. Proto-Italic *en-
6. Latin in-
7. Proto-Indo-European *per-?
8. Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
9. Proto-Italic *pres-
10. Latin premō
11. Latin imprimereder.
12. Old French empreindre
13. Old French empreinterbor.
14. Middle English emprinten
15. English imprint
16. From Middle English emprinten, enprinten, from Old French empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere. See: Latin '
imprimere'.
Sample Sentences
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For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
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For though a Child quickly aſſent to this Propoſition, That an Apple is not Fire; when, by familiar Acquaintance, he has got the Idea's of thoſe two different things diſtinctly imprinted on his Mind, and has learnt that the names Apple and Fire ſtand for them; yet it will be ſome years after, perhaps, before the ſame Child will aſſent to this Propoſition, That it is impoſſible for the ſame thing to be, and not to be. [1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “No Innate Principles in the Mind”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, § 23, page 12:]
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Him great in peace and wealth fair Deva knows; / For ſhe amidſt his ſpacious meadows flows; / Inclines her urn upon his fatten'd lands; / And ſees his num'rous herd imprint her ſands. [1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 259:]
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Nature imprints upon whate'er we ſee / That has a heart and life in it, be free; [...] [1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 189:]
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Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!
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That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults. [1977, Dorothy Rogers, Issues in child psychology, page 62:]