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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishimpingeim‧pinge /ɪmˈpɪndʒ/ verb → impinge on/upon somebody/something→ See Verb table
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impinge• The proposed fencing would impinge on a public bridleway which traverses the field.• Except, of course, where they directly impinge on me, that is.• Or, indeed, the reverse, how does our understanding of Ireland currently impinge on our reading of Spenser?• They rarely study natural events, and only in so far as they impinge on the human world.• Certainly little awareness of Manhattan and its skyscrapers seemed to impinge on the people working on the Worldwide Plaza brick.• It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.• A person responds only to a small part of the stimuli impinging upon him.• It does not tell historians what to encode in a given source and thus impinge upon interpretation.
Origin impinge (1500-1600) Latin impingere, from pangere “to fasten, drive in”
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